Barker, Thomas; John Whitney

The Art of Angling. Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that Recreation ... 1651. [Bound with:] Barker's Delight; or, The Art of Angling ... 1657. [And:] The Genteel Recreation: Or, the Pleasure of Angling, A Poem ... 1700

London: Printed for R.H … [Printed for J.H. Burn, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden by Johnson, Printer, Apollo Press], 1651 [but: 1820]. Each work is one of 100 copies reprinted by Burn. 3 works bound in one volume. [iv], 22; iv, [12], 40, [4, ads]; [xiv], 78, [2, ads] pp. Bound in full contemporary green morocco with angling motifs, a.e.g. Fine. Westwood & Satchell pp 22, 240. Beautiful volume collecting three of Burn’s 1820 reprints of classic works of English angling literature: the two editions of Barker (with type facsimiles of the 1651, 1657, and 1659 title pages); and John Whitney’s dialogue in verse.

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