Maxims and Hints for an Angler and Miseries of Fishing: to which are added Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player

Maxims and Hints for an Angler and Miseries of Fishing: to which are added Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player

Penn, Richard

John Murray, London, 1842


A new edition, enlarged.  Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering.  pp. 106. Numerous wood cuts.  Clean, unmarked pages. The angling text consists of "Extracts from the Common Place Book of the Houghton Fishing Club;" notes and advice on flyfishing for trout, principally on the river Test.  First printed in 1833. Book plate of Edward Hine Johnson (b. 1854, Yale 1876, d. 1924). Refs: Westwood & Satchell 168.  Frontis loose.

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