The Angler's Guide, Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: Containing the Whole Art of Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, Fly-Fishing, and Trimmer-Angling, Founded on Forty Years' Practice and Observation
London: Printed for the Author by Haines and Turner, sold by T. Tegg, 1815. Second Edition. Illustrated with woodcuts. Half leather over boards. Octavo. xxxi, 317 (misprinted as 217) pages.
Published just a year after the first edition in 1814, this second edition boasts considerable additions, local descriptions, a glossary of technical terms, and an index. Illustrations of fish and tackle. Salter's geographic area includes the rivers Thames and Lea. Chapters on various types of fish, use of artificial flies (fly-fishing), etc. Addenda section includes practical information on weather, treatment of drowned persons, etc.
This is a large paper copy with 6 extra copper plate engravings of fish at rear, which are not found in the regular edition.
Ref. HAND S11.
Very good. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown, a few anecdotal annotations in text. Minor extremity wear, mild foxing. Clean and sound overall. In custom-fitted 4 mil Mylar jacket. Attractive early 19th century volume.
Item #1908
Price: $450