DAYS OF MY LIFE: ON WATERS FRESH AND SALT, AND OTHER PAPERS. By John Bickerdyke.
1895 1st edition. Small 8vo (140 x 196mm). Ppvii,227 + ii pp ads. Photogravure frontispiece and other plates from photographs. Green cloth, gilt title on spine and white title and decorative design of leaping fish on upper board.
In two sections - fresh and salt. Chapters on pike and coarse, trout and salmon fishing, bass and pollack fishing, including good sections on flyfishing for sea-trout and coalfish. John Bickerdyke includes what is probably the record player's first appearance in angling literature, in a yarn entitled "Salmon Fishing By Phonograph".
In two sections - fresh and salt. Chapters on pike and coarse, trout and salmon fishing, bass and pollack fishing, including good sections on flyfishing for sea-trout and coalfish. John Bickerdyke includes what is probably the record player's first appearance in angling literature, in a yarn entitled "Salmon Fishing By Phonograph".
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50056
| Author | Bickerdyke (John)". John Bickerdyke" was the pen-name of Charles Henry Cook. (1858-1933). |
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| Book Code | 50056 |
| ISBN | B00DYVZDB8. |
| Book Description | Slight string-mark and use but a very good copy of the first edition. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1895 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Co. |
| Place | London. |