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[FLY-FISHING]. The Angler’s Hand-Book… London: Robert Tyas, 1840.
24mo (117 x 83 mm). 2 hand-colored plates, each fly identified in a contemporary hand. Contemporary half crushed red niger, marbled sides, marbled edges (joints and ends gently rubbed, front joint starting at frontispiece). Provenance: Thomas Westwood (armorial bookplate and monogram stamped on front fly), described in DNB as a “minor poet and bibliographer of angling”; Dean Sage (booklabel), a noted collector and sportsman.
THIRD EDITION, first published in 1838. Westwood & Satchell, p. 8.