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ANGLING VENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling, B.W. for B. Tooke, 1683 image 1
ANGLING VENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling, B.W. for B. Tooke, 1683 image 2
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ANGLING
VENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling, B.W. for B. Tooke, 1683

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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VENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling, fifth edition, additional engraved pictorial title by F.H. van Hove, engraved illustrations in the text, crushed red morocco gilt by The Club Bindery (signed and dated 1906 on front turn-in), sides with elaborately tooled wide border, spine with decoration and lettering in 6 compartments with raised bands [ESTC R33734; Westwood & Satchell, p.214], small 8vo, B.W. for B. Tooke, 1683

Footnotes

An attractively bound copy of the final life-time edition of Cheshire-born parliamentarian army officer Robert Venables' celebrated The Experienc'd Angler, in which an early owner has added a manuscript recipe for attracting fish.

Provenance: Samuel Elliott, early ownership inscription on final blank, with a 12-line manuscript note "To draw fish to ye hook/Take mans fatt & Catts fatt... the distilled oyles of anniseed... & baite yo[u]r hook with worme".

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