boosey editor (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1887). 1887 1st edition thus. 8vo (154 x 210mm). Pp251+ 12pp ads. Blue cloth with gilt spine vignette of fishing tackle. Well worn and used. A good working copy only. This is the second edition of "Piscatorial reminiscences and gleanings, by an old angler and bibliopolist. To which is added a catalogue of books on angling", by T.B., published in 1835. The 1887 edition omits the catalogue of books. A wide-ranging collection of short anecdotes and paragraphs on fish and fishing which the compiler had collected over many years. For instance, there are seventeen pages of notes on pike and pike fishing, taken from many sources. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1887). 1887 1st edition thus. 8vo (139 x 207mm). Pp251. Blue cloth with gilt spine vignette of fishing tackle. Cloth stained, eps browned. Some pages uncut but good copy. This is the second edition of "Piscatorial reminiscences and gleanings, by an old angler and bibliopolist. To which is added a catalogue of books on angling", by T.B., published in 1835. The 1887 edition omits the catalogue of books. A wide-ranging collection of short anecdotes and paragraphs on fish and fishing which the compiler had collected over many years. For instance, there are seventeen pages of notes on pike and pike fishing, taken from many sources. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1835). 1835 1st edition. 16mo (105 x 170mm). Ppxvi,255 + [Ppiv,36] catalogue. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette & text vignettes of fish. Early rebind in half calf. Inner hinges tend, quite worn but strong enough. A good copy with 1838 ownership inscription. A wide-ranging collection of short anecdotes and paragraphs on fish and fishing which the editor had compiled over many years. For instance, there are seventeen pages of notes on pike and pike fishing, taken from many sources. The name of the editor is not given, but the Preface is signed "T.B." In the later edition of 1887 the editor's name is given in full. The catalogue at the rear, contributed by the publisher, William Pickering, has a separate title-page, "Bibliotheca Piscatoria: A catalogue of books upon angling", and is dated 1836. "This Catalogue of Works on Angling will be found more extensive than any hitherto published. It is formed upon Sir Henry Ellis's corrected copy of the List, which he contributed to the British Bibliographer in 1811, and which he kindly lent for the purpose. The various editions of the Treatise of Hawking, Hunting, and Fishing, by Juliana Berners, are described with greater accuracy than by any former bibliographer; and some editions are noticed of which the existence was unknown." The catalogue consists of twenty unpaginated leaves, [Ppiv,36]. .

Octavo,five volumes,coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its main interest was in bird breeding and budgerigars were a staple. Boosey originally worked for the Duke of Bedford. He was a prolific writer and his best known book is Foreign bird keeping: forty years' experience in their breeding and management, first published 1956. The Foreigner is a delightful little publication with a lot of very interesting material. A very scarce sixth volume was published in 1939.