Book Details

Book Reference:	23073
Author:	BROOKES (R[ichard])
Title:	The Art of Angling... Now Improved with Additions, and Formed into a Dictionary... The Whole Forming a Sportsman’s Magazine; and Comprising all that is Curious and Valuable in the Art of Angling.
Price:	£295.00
Year:
Description:	Printed for T. Lowndes. 1761. Third Edition,12mo, viii,293,[11 adverts]pp., engraved frontis., 135 woodcuts of each fish described, cont. calf, new leather label on spine, a nice copy. Heckscher calls this a “very rare edition”, which is said to have been edited by Moses Browne. Brookes claims in the preface that “as to the drawings, they were, with the exception of one or two, done by myself.”
Subjects:	Angling | Antiquarian | Sporting Books