Author : Kenneth Mansfield Year of publication: 1957 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: As New Category: Game / fishing Cost of book: £45.00 Price negotiable: Yes
Specifics:
Mansfield, Kenneth, edited by. With A further 28 Author contributors. The Art of Angling. With Contributions from Prominent Angling Writers. (3 Volumes, complete set). Uniform Matched Set in Three Volumes: Caxton, London. Reprint of November 1957. (The second reprint had to be printed only 4 months after the 1st, such was its popularity), 3 volumes set, out-of-print hbks in dark blue faux-leather/gilt, Crown quarto over 10x7.5inches, xix + 415pp, xviii + 378pp, xviii + 363pp + 36pp general index, colour frontis plate with approx 47 monochrome plates per volume plus very many txt illustrations, diagrams, charts & line-drawings throughout all the txts, bright unmarked boards with gilt embossed facsimile signature & fish motif on upper boards & spine, light grey pictorial endpapers, endpapers clean, as new condition, attractive blue stippled edges, covers & contents bright & unblemished, a really handsome almost as new set. This edition covers the whole gamut of coarse, game & sea-fishing in Britain, from its literature, through the quarry, tackle & techniques, to fishing locations, and its impressive list of expert contributors includes: Adamson, Vernon Bates, Claypoole, Kingfisher, Seangler, Faddist, Ambrose Heath, Holiday, Ivens, Parker, Perrett, Omar, John Roberts, Coombe Richards, Tombleson, Horsfall Turner, both CF & Richard Walker. A really smart set, which appears to be unused. £45.00
