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Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 6.75 x 8.25 inches. xxiii + [i] + 111 + [1] pp. Facsimile title pages of original editions. Bound in original quarter vellum, gilt over light brown boards. Top edges gilt. A few stains on boards and lower edge and fly leaves browned and foxed; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by text figures and by facsimile of engraved title page of The Experienced Angler. Decorated by vignette on title page of The Pleasures of Princes and by publisher's device on title page. Limited edition reprint of two early books on Angling. Gervase Markham (c.1568-1637) descended from a Nottinghamshire gentry family, was a prolific writer and tenant farmer, whose non-literary works included military training, domestic economy, veterinary medicine and horsemanship in addition to husbandry. The Pleasures of Princes first appeared as part of The English Husbandman of 1614 (new edition, 1635). Colonel Robert Venables (c.1613-87), from a Puritan Cheshire gentry family, fought for Parliament in the Civil War in Cheshire and later in Ireland, 1649-54. As joint commander of the 'Western Design' expedition against Spanish possessions in the West Indies, he captured Jamaica in 1665. After the Restoration he retired to his Cheshire estate and published the first edition of The Experienced Angler, with a preface by his friend, Izaak Walton, in 1662. SPORTS/PASTIMES ANGLING SPORT- RURAL PURSUITS 17TH CENTURY SPORTS/PASTIMES
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Pp xxiii, 111. Original paper covered boards. Teg. Foot of spine defective otherwise the binding is VG. The d/w wrapper exists but is in a very worn, torn and soiled condition. No. 517/650 copies.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, parchment backstrip lettered gilt, pale brown paper covered boards, top edge gilt, a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial age-toned dust wrapper that has two small holes to lower joint but o/w is very well preserved and is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, text clean and unmarked, Limited edition of just 650 copies of which this is numbered 220, b&w illustrations, xxiii + 111 pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$41.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, parchment backstrip lettered gilt, pale brown paper covered boards, top edge gilt, an ex-library copy with stamps but no labels, a good tightly bound copy in a pictorial age-toned dust wrapper that has loss at head of spine and is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, Limited edition of just 650 copies of which this is numbered 490, b&w illustrations, xxiii + 111 pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927 Cresset Press facsimile reprint of 1614 edition hardback, limited edition on hand-made paper and bound in limp vellum, numbered 43 of 650 copies; good+ lightly aged copy, just gift note inside front cover, with good unclipped age-darkened dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small craack at edge of board else VG. ; HH; Square 8vo; Half vellum, xxiii, 111p., illustrations, one of 650 numbered copies. **With the Experienced Angler, by Robert Venerables.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter vellum gilt with tan paper-covered boards, square 8vo., xxiii, 111, (1) pages. One of 650 numbered copies printed from Monotype Cochin types. Trimmed front panel of the DW loosely inserted. A near fine copy with negligible soil and wear, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. #540/650 regular Numbered copies, bound in quarter vellum over tan paper covered boards, top edge gilt, About Fine, in a Very Good dustwrapper, wear to points, one tiny mend. 111pp. Mild offset to half title leaf. A facsimile edition. Q16451
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Limited Edition (stated; 566 of 650) hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Quarter parchment in limp vellum boards, bumped to spine ends and upper corners. Some light soiling and foxing to backstrip. Top edge gilt. Internally, some shadow and light foxing to prelims. No writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Unclipped dustjacket soiled with chipping to extremities with small losses - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages
Seller: The Old Bookshelf, Campbeltown, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London. Limited Edition of 650 copies, this being copy no. 126. 111 pages. Bound in quarter parchment with paper covered boards.
Seller: J Head, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Description: A limited edition copy of these historic works on the art of angling, bound in quarter vellum. Limited edition, number 198 of 650 copies printed on handmade paper.Bound in quarter vellum with paper-covered boards. This work is comprised of two facsimiles bound into one, including 'The Pleasures of Princes or Good Mens Recreations' by Gervase Markham, and 'The Experienced Angler' By Colonel Robert Venables. These works were originally published in 1614 and 1662. With a preface by Horace Hutchinson. Illustrated with vignettes of fish species to 'The Experienced Angler'. In quarter vellum binding with paper-covered boards. Externally, very smart, with light marking to the boards and vellum, with the occasional spot. Spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd spot to the first and last pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Full limp vellum with gilt spine titles. Fine with a trace of handling discoloration to spine and pale foxing confined to endpapers. Vellum splays somewhat when ties opened. Deluxe edition, copy number 7 of 50 deluxe copies on handmade paper bound in full limp vellum with ribbon ties.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.