Fitzgibbon edward ephemera (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Original green cloth,front board partialy faded, spine darkened. Rubbed at corners and moderately shaken in case.Light stain to margin of 6 leaves and removable dust marking to inner margins of some leaves.Outer front joint cracked and inner end paper hinges split but holding. Collates thus :- viii, 312pp. No ads are present in this copy. Early signature on title page. This is a copy of the illustrated Scarce 3rd edition.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1853). (1847) 1865 4th edition. 12mo (110 x 178mm). Ppviii,312 + 32pp ads. B/w frontispiece of salmon flies, text engravings. Decoratively blind-stamped green cloth, spine titled in gilt, brown coated end-papers. Front inner professionally repaired. Cloth a little rubbed but good. Armorial bookplate and end-paper ownership signature of T. Godfrey Hatfeild of Thorp Arch Hall, York, 1866. Third edition, considerably revised. In the author's preface he states "I have, I think, improved the general style of the volume; excised repetitions, rejected incorrect instruction, unsound suggestion, opinion, and advice, and replaced them by accurate information and counsel. The list of trout-flies I have shortened and simplified, and given no fancy patterns. .The natural history of salmon I have re-written. .The list of salmon-flies for the best rivers in the British Isles I have remodelled after the best specimens in that gallery of ideal insect beauties which I painted for The Book of the Salmon." Chapters on artificial flies; their dressing and use, together with monthly lists of recommended flies for both trout and salmon; trolling tackle and techniques; bottom fishing; piscatorial physiology by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S; and the habits of freshwater fish. Though the book includes sections on bottom fishing, the author most definitely favours the fly and includes a section on "The superiority and merits of fly-fishing." He does, however, still have time for the coarse fish except, perhaps, the carp of which he says "The yellowish olive carp stands at the head of a very numerous family, giving, in my opinion, no very honourable name to them. They are just as bad a race as the salmon tribe are excellent. .Neither I nor anyone else can tell you how to catch satisfactorily with the angle the pater familias of the carp; he is so sly, and nibbles in such a namby-pamby way, that he strips the hook of its bait mouse-like." .…

xii, 363pp. + [32]pp. of ads. at rear. Illustrated. Rebacked, retaining orig. spine. Green blind decorated cloth. Rear endpapers soiled, some occasional light foxing throughout o/w contents clean and sound.

Longman, Brown. 1850. 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xvi + 242 + 2 [ads.] + 24 [publisher's catalogue], 9 plates (8 hand coloured);previous owner's signature to flyleaf, pp. xi-xii roughly opened with loss to edge, occasional light spotting, very good.First edition. Fitzgibbon was a friend of his fellow Irishman the tackle maker William Blacker, and was an ambitious angling writer. This was the first comprehensive guide to the salmon to be written and is rightly prized for the quality of the plates, printed by the Adlards, as well as for the clear, authoritative text.Westwood & Satchell p. 86. …