Henderson, William

Notes and Reminiscences of My Life as an Angler

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printed by Spottiswoode & Co, For Private Circulation Only London 1876 First Edition With an Appendix containing A Description of the Caves of Adelsberg and the Proteus Anguinus. Illustrations by Clement Burlison, Engraved by Edmund Evans. Photographic frontispiece portrait and five woodcut plates. 8vo. xiii, [i], 324 pp. Bound in contemporary green goatskin, green cloth sides, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and fourth, the others tooled with fishing motifs, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. A little rubbed and marked. Title-page, dedication and plates with scattered foxing and occasional spotting in the text, but a good copy in a handsome binding. A slip is bound in before the half-title "From WM. Henderson, Villa Muller, Herdweg, Stuttgart, Wurtemburg". There is a slip from an old bookseller's catalogue pasted inside the front cover, and it notes: "A book to be set apart and in the best company. It is one of the most sterling and attaching of modern Angling books, and possesses several of the qualities that have rendered Iz. Walton's writings household words, - his simplicity, naiveté, and honest benevolence". The first trade edition was published in 1879. Bookplates of William Hardcastle and Oliver Collett.

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