Thomas Best, Art of Angling, 1814, Enlarged UK Edition
"The Art of Angling Confirmed by actual Experience; Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries. To which is now added Nobb’s Complete Troller, The whole forming A Complete Museum for the Lovers of that Pleasing and Rational Recreation. Also Prognostics of the Weather independent of the Barometer; And a New Chapter, Containing Rules, how best to form a competent Judgement of the changes that take place, in that useful instrument."
Tenth Edition Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. By Thomas Best. London: Printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co. Stationers' Court, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all booksellers and tackle sellers in the United Kingdom, 1814.
Marbled hard boards, leather spine and corners [leather creased between spine and boards, board are attached, some soiling and wear, spine damages: see photos]; 4.1/4" x 7.1/4"; Frontispiece design and engraved by Hopwood, viii + 260 pages; some soiling and wear, very good condition.
Although the first part of A Concise Treatise is a general angling work that provided little new information when it was published, the second part of the book--The Complete Fly-Fisher was one of the earliest how-to books on the subject of fly fishing and artificial fly making. The book proved to be extremely popular and useful, being issued in thirteen editions from 1787 to 1846.
"A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. . . . By Thomas Best, Gent. Late of his Majesty's Drawing Room in the Tower, London, appeared in 1787. Thirteen editions of this work were published;, to the tenth and eleventh editions the greater part of Nobbes' Compleat Troller was added. This book, though it contains nothing strikingly original, is a thoroughly practical treatise on the art of angling..." [W. J. Turrell. "Ancient Angling Authors" 1910].
"He makes mention of the multiplying reel, the first time we hear of it, but evidently not unknown before his day. In the second part of the book, which has the special title The Complete Fly-fisher, he describes the dressing of many flies and their killing powers. Upon the whole, it is a practical and sensible work." [James Robb. "Notable Angling Literature" 1945].
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"The Art of Angling Confirmed by actual Experience; Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries. To which is now added Nobb’s Complete Troller, The whole forming A Complete Museum for the Lovers of that Pleasing and Rational Recreation. Also Prognostics of the Weather independent of the Barometer; And a New Chapter, Containing Rules, how best to form a competent Judgement of the changes that take place, in that useful instrument."
Tenth Edition Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. By Thomas Best. London: Printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co. Stationers' Court, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all booksellers and tackle sellers in the United Kingdom, 1814.
Marbled hard boards, leather spine and corners [leather creased between spine and boards, board are attached, some soiling and wear, spine damages: see photos]; 4.1/4" x 7.1/4"; Frontispiece design and engraved by Hopwood, viii + 260 pages; some soiling and wear, very good condition.
Although the first part of A Concise Treatise is a general angling work that provided little new information when it was published, the second part of the book--The Complete Fly-Fisher was one of the earliest how-to books on the subject of fly fishing and artificial fly making. The book proved to be extremely popular and useful, being issued in thirteen editions from 1787 to 1846.
"A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. . . . By Thomas Best, Gent. Late of his Majesty's Drawing Room in the Tower, London, appeared in 1787. Thirteen editions of this work were published;, to the tenth and eleventh editions the greater part of Nobbes' Compleat Troller was added. This book, though it contains nothing strikingly original, is a thoroughly practical treatise on the art of angling..." [W. J. Turrell. "Ancient Angling Authors" 1910].
"He makes mention of the multiplying reel, the first time we hear of it, but evidently not unknown before his day. In the second part of the book, which has the special title The Complete Fly-fisher, he describes the dressing of many flies and their killing powers. Upon the whole, it is a practical and sensible work." [James Robb. "Notable Angling Literature" 1945].
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