[BROWN, JOHN J.]=AN AMERICAN ANGLER The American Angler's Guide. Being a compilation from works of popular English authors, from Walton to the present time... New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. First edition. Contemporary pale blue cloth decorated in gilt and in blind. 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 224, [5] pp.; hand-colored frontispiece, 2 woodcut plates of hooks, publisher's advertisements. Small losses to spine ends, corners bumped, spine darkened, cloth with one or two pale stains, scattered foxing (particularly to endpapers and plates), non-authorial signature to second blank. The rare first edition of the first angling book written by an American. Bruns B253 ("a very rare item"); Goodspeed, pp. 159-163; Henderson, pp. 66-67; Westwood & Satchell, p. 4; Wetzel, p. 113. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[BROWN, JOHN J.]=AN AMERICAN ANGLER The American Angler's Guide. Being a compilation from works of popular English authors, from Walton to the present time... New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. First edition. Contemporary pale blue cloth decorated in gilt and in blind. 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 224, [5] pp.; hand-colored frontispiece, 2 woodcut plates of hooks, publisher's advertisements. Small losses to spine ends, corners bumped, spine darkened, cloth with one or two pale stains, scattered foxing (particularly to endpapers and plates), non-authorial signature to second blank. The rare first edition of the first angling book written by an American. Bruns B253 ("a very rare item"); Goodspeed, pp. 159-163; Henderson, pp. 66-67; Westwood & Satchell, p. 4; Wetzel, p. 113. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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