JONES'S GUIDE TO NORWAY, and Salmon-fisher's Pocket Companion.
by TOLFREY, Frederic and J. JONES.:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London, published by Longman Brown Green and Longman Paternoster Row; and J. Jones 111 Jermyn Street, 1848.. FIRST EDITION 1848, edited by FREDERIC TOLFREY. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, lithograph frontispiece and title page, 8 hand coloured plates of flies with tissue guards, pages: xxiv, 1-240 last page blank, origInal publisher's cloth, gilt title, decoration and date to spine, blind decoration to covers, original yellow endpapers. Binding rebacked preserving original spine and lightly rubbed, new cloth slighty visible at head and tail of spine, corners slightly worn, inner paper hinges cracked, binding sound, old ink name to first pastedown and first free endpaper, previous owner's light pencil notes to margins and plates, easily erased if of no interest, pale age-browning to plates, frontispiece has pale blue colouring to water, tiny pale stain to lower edge of blank side of lithograph title page, a few lower corner tips at the beginning have small shallow turning crease. A good copy with slight signs of handling. See: The Library of The Late John Gerard Heckscher of New York City, page 93, No. 1944; Westwood and Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria, page 210. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47515
- Title
- JONES'S GUIDE TO NORWAY, and Salmon-fisher's Pocket Companion.
- Author
- TOLFREY, Frederic and J. JONES.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, published by Longman Brown Green and Longman Paternoster Row; and J. Jones 111 Jermyn Street, 1848.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jones norway tolfrey fishing angling salmon fly fishing salmon-flies river fishing
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