Angling for Pike
BICKERDYKE, John, [[pseud. C.H., COOK], ]
A Practical and Comprehensive Work on the most approved Methods of fishing for Pike or Jack; including an Account of some new Tackles for Spinning, Live-Baiting and Trolling.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC
Published: L. Upcott Gill, [1888]
Stock code: 33146
Price: £124.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front endpapers, free endpapers mildly browned; strongly bound in maroon pebble-grain cloth, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy.
As often, this copy is bound without the trade advertisements. First edition of the third part of 'The Book of the All-Round Angler', of which each constituent part is complete in itself. All four parts were severally republished and all are scarce in their original editions. Hampton p.77.