THE BOOK OF THE ALL-ROUND ANGLER: A comprehensive treatise on angling in both fresh and salt water. By John Bickerdyke. Large Paper edition.

1888 1st edition. Large paper issue. Large 8vo (162 x 230mm). Ppxx,128;ii,92;ii,127;ii,108, xxiv (index). Engraved plates and text engravings. Quarter tan calf over dark green boards, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges rough-cut. Edition limited to 201 copies.

"John Bickerdyke" was the pen-name of Charles Henry Cook. The separate parts of this book have been frequently reprinted as separate volumes. They are "Angling for coarse fish", "Angling for pike", "Angling for game fish", and "Angling in salt water". "With over 150 engravings." * This is a copy of the Large Paper edition with bookplate on the front paste-down stating: "We certify that only 201 copies of the Large-paper Edition of 'The Book of the All-Round Angler' were printed, and that this copy is the 65th. Each sheet was numbered as it left the press, and all sheets bearing the same number are bound together, thus insuring that each copy is throughout of the same order of issue." This is followed by the signatures of both the author, John Bickerdyke, and the publisher, L. Upcott Gill. Throughout the book the sheets have been numbered 65 on the bottom edge of the page. The front paste-down also carries the armorial bookplate of Arthur E. Franklin, along with a former owner's signature (not Franklin) on the front end-paper.