A PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH: A LIGHT-HEARTED GUIDE TO COARSE FISHING. By Arnold Wiles.

A PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH: A LIGHT-HEARTED GUIDE TO COARSE FISHING. By Arnold Wiles.

MR. PUNCH WITH ROD AND GUN: The humours of fishing and shooting. Edited by J.A. Hammerton. The Punch Library of Humour.

MR. PUNCH WITH ROD AND GUN: The humours of fishing and shooting. Edited by J.A. Hammerton. The Punch Library of Humour.

AN ANGLER'S BASKET: Filled in sunshine and shade through the space of forty years: being a collection of stories, quaint sayings and remembrances, with a few angling hints and experiences. By T.E. Pritt.

1896 1st edition. Small 8vo. (125x190mm) Ppxiv,148. Frontispiece portrait photograph. Binding D. Olive green pictorial cloth gilt, titled in gilt on spine and upper board, and with a design of rod and creel printed in black on the upper board. "Heywood and Son" at foot of spine.

A collection of entertainments assembled by the author shortly before his death. Seven groups (or "Emptyings") of stories, a few of them practical, but most of them amusing: odds and ends, parodies, songs, letters, sayings, and stories. Abel Heywood and Son, Manchester, and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., London, 1896. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait photograph with facsimile signature. xiv pp + 148 pp. Decorative cloth. Small 8vo. I have five copies to hand and each one is in a different binding! This is Binding D. Slightly smaller than Bindings A and B at 125x190mm. Page edges trimmed. Mid-green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper board, and with a design of rod and creel printed in black on the upper board.
£65.00
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Book Code
44908
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Author Pritt (Thomas Evan). (1848-1895).
Book Code 44908
ISBN B001AVWQGO.
Book Description End-papers with name browned, foxing and slight use to boards but a good-plus copy.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1896
Publisher A Heywood and Son, Manchester
Place and Simpkin and Co, London.