The Book of the Pike
CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H[arry]
A Practical Treatise on the various Methods of Jack Fishing. With an Analysis of the Tackle employed. The History of the Fish, etc. Also a Chapter on Spinning for Trout in Lakes and Rivers. [Second Edition].
SECOND EDITION, WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE
Published: Frederick Warne, [1870]
Stock code: 31795
Price: £248.00
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present; the guard offset as intended), 8 plates in monochrome and 17 illustrations in the text, half-title and blank preliminaries very lightly spotted; original coarse-grain red cloth, sides ruled in gilt, back lettered in gilt and blocked with a pike motif, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy in wholly unrestored contemporary themed binding.
With 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end and contemporary binder's ticket of Burn & Co on rear paste-down. Lovely copy of the second edition of this angling classic, first published in 1865. AN UNUSUAL COPY IN THAT THE FRONTISPIECE IS COLOURED, WHEREAS HAMPTON STATES MONOCHROME. A third and final edition followed in 1876. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton, p.222; Westwood & Satchell, pp.168-9.