[Rarebooks] FS: Brookes' finely bound "The Art of Angling" w/135 woodcuts. London: 1774

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(FISHING) Brookes, Richard. THE ART OF ANGLING. In Two Parts... Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-Five Cuts... The Fourth Edition,  with Great Improvements. London: T. Lowndes. 1774. 12mo. viii,304pp. Copper engraved frontispiece, with small repairs to blank outer margin. Text with 135 woodcuts. Rebound in full red morocco, ornately gilt spine with black morocco label. Title page with light brown stain to lower portion, and for some unknown reason, the imprint line with "T. Lowndes" has been inked over. Housed in a marbled paper open end slipcase.         $450.00 (trade discount allowed)

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