[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Rev. John F.Bigge with the Author's compliments" at head of Preface and numbered 33 in circle, with 2 A.Ls.s. from Crawhall to Bigge mounted facing title and on verso of title, hand-coloured coat-of-arms mounted on leaf facing Preface, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 31 engraved plates on india paper and mounted (one in hand-coloured and uncoloured state), 6 hand-coloured, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, with 9 original watercolours by Crawhall on text versos or bound in including one full-page of trout, the last heightened with gum arabic, some foxing, bookplate of Edward E.Bigge, angling engraving captioned "Vernon Gallery. The Enthusiast" in ink manuscript on plate trimmed and mounted on front free endpaper (frayed at edge and detached with title and letters), some other ephemera loosely inserted, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rubbed, spine faded, [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859]. ⁂ The author's first book, published anonymously. "A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection...only forty copies were struck off for private circulation." W & S. Copies appear to vary as to contents.
[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Rev. John F.Bigge with the Author's compliments" at head of Preface and numbered 33 in circle, with 2 A.Ls.s. from Crawhall to Bigge mounted facing title and on verso of title, hand-coloured coat-of-arms mounted on leaf facing Preface, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 31 engraved plates on india paper and mounted (one in hand-coloured and uncoloured state), 6 hand-coloured, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, with 9 original watercolours by Crawhall on text versos or bound in including one full-page of trout, the last heightened with gum arabic, some foxing, bookplate of Edward E.Bigge, angling engraving captioned "Vernon Gallery. The Enthusiast" in ink manuscript on plate trimmed and mounted on front free endpaper (frayed at edge and detached with title and letters), some other ephemera loosely inserted, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rubbed, spine faded, [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859]. ⁂ The author's first book, published anonymously. "A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection...only forty copies were struck off for private circulation." W & S. Copies appear to vary as to contents.
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