Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1885. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾. N/a. xii, 340, 2 (ads.) pp. 1885. 12mo. A very good plus, clean, tight well preserved copy. Original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine with a blind stamped vignette of a angler to the front board. Brown endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author. Four chromolithographic plates and 4 illustrations in the text - all as called for. The upper two board corners a little bumped or turned in. Some spotting to the front endpapers with some light spotting to the fore-edges - very scattered and very light elsewhere. A very fine, very slight split to the front inner hinge - extending just 2cm from the head. A few tiny speck marks to the rear board. A lovely, clean, tight very good plus copy.

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Bookseller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 236580
Title: The Angler and the Loop-Rod
Author: Webster, David
Illustrator: N/a
Format/Binding: Green Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Plus
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
Place of Publication: Edinburgh & London
Date Published: 1885
Size: 12mo - over 6Â¾&quo
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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