[FLY FISHING] Pair of works on fly fishing. Includes FITZGIBBON, EDWARD. The Book of the Salmon... London: Longman [etc.], 1850. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches (17 x 11 cm); xvi, 242, [2] pp., with nine plates, eight richly hand-colored (including five of hand-tied flies). Binding somewhat worn but sound, head of spine chipped, some toning to the paper. Edward Clark Cabot's copy, with his bookplate and name in ink on the recto of the half-title; CARROLL, W. The Angler's Vade Mecum... Edinburgh: Constable, 1818. First edition. Later three-quarters brown calf. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); viii, 128 pp., with twelve hand-colored plates. Spine faded, internally a clean and large-margined copy. Two color plate angling classics, Westwood & Satchell p 86; pp. 50-51. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[FLY FISHING] Pair of works on fly fishing. Includes FITZGIBBON, EDWARD. The Book of the Salmon... London: Longman [etc.], 1850. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches (17 x 11 cm); xvi, 242, [2] pp., with nine plates, eight richly hand-colored (including five of hand-tied flies). Binding somewhat worn but sound, head of spine chipped, some toning to the paper. Edward Clark Cabot's copy, with his bookplate and name in ink on the recto of the half-title; CARROLL, W. The Angler's Vade Mecum... Edinburgh: Constable, 1818. First edition. Later three-quarters brown calf. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); viii, 128 pp., with twelve hand-colored plates. Spine faded, internally a clean and large-margined copy. Two color plate angling classics, Westwood & Satchell p 86; pp. 50-51. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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