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BLACKER (WILLIAM) Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours
Sold for £4,800 (US$ 7,440) inc. premium

Lot Details
BLACKER (WILLIAM)
Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours, first edition, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at end, and with several emendations (mostly typographic corrections), engraved frontispiece, title and one plate (browned), bookplate of Arthur Howard Thompson, publisher's embossed light brown roan, spine rubbed [Westwood & Satchell, p.32], 12mo, for the Author, 1842

Footnotes

  • The first issue, printed in Edinburgh by Anderson and Bryce.
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