[Rarebooks] FS: 1790 Issue of Nobbes Art of Trolling

[Lee Kirk]

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Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 1790 Issue of Nobbes Art of Trolling

TITLE: "The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling, With A Description of
all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials requisite
thereto: With Rules and Directions how to use them. As Also A Brief Account
of most of the Principal Rivers in England. By a Lover of the Sport"

By Robert Nobbes.

Published in London, printed by T. James for Tho. Holder at the Angel in
Little Britain in 1790 [stated 1682, but this is the 1790 re-issue].

DISCUSSION: First published in 1682. Although Nobbes' book was not the
earliest English work on fishing, it was one of the most popular, and Nobbes
has been called "the Father of trollers". Republished in 1790 (this
edition) and again in 1805.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 3.5"x6", [17] 78 [2] pages. Several woodcut
illustrations in the text. 1 page list of other books published by Helder on
the last page. Bound in old full leather with gilt dentelles and an
elaborately blindstamped spine. Engraved bookplates of James Walsh and Henry
A. Sherwin, and the ownership label of H.S. Smith; another ownership label
removed from the endpaper.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers with some wear and rubbing, contents a bit browned,
with a small stain running down the upper portion of the outer margin.  Late
19th century plain brown endpapers. Front endpaper detached but present.
Title page has some neatly inked light red/brown rules around the margins
and underlining the title which actually ends up looking a bit handsome.

PRICE: $750 -

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