SAUNDERS, James

THE COMPLEAT FISHERMAN. BEING A LARGE AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT, OF ALL THE SEVERAL WAYS OF FISHING NOW PRACTISED IN EUROPE

      London: W. Mears and S. Tooke, 1724. First Edition. full leather. Internally Near Fine in a Very Good binding. ...WITH ABUNDANCE OF CURIOUS SECRETS AND NICETIES IN THE ART OF FISHING, AS WELL IN THE SEA, AS IN LAKES, MEERS, PONDS, RIVERS OR BROOKES; WHETHER BY DARTS, SPEARS, HARPOONS, NETS, HOOK AND LINE, OR ANY OTHER WAY WHATSOEVER. MORE PARTICULARLY CALCULATED FOR THE SPORT OF ANGLING. WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE ANGLE RODS, LINES, HOOKS, AND BAITS, PROPER FOR EVERY PART OF THE SPORT RESPECTIVELY; AND ALSO FOR THE ANGLER'S CONDUCT IN RIGHTLY APPLYING THEM. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS, LAKES, &C. IN ENGLAND; AND WHAT KINDS OF FISH ARE MORE ESPECIALLY FOUND IN THEM. COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, AND FROM THE LONG EXPERIENCES OF.... Duodecimo (12mo: 3-3/4" x 6-1/4") bound in later full green morocco rebacked at an early date with gilt rules and spine lettering, new endpapers, all edges gilt; [6], 234 pages. Illustrated with a lovely copper-engraved folding frontispiece showing fishermen on and by a river engaging in different methods of fish catching with depictions of four types of fish above them. From a public library with its small ink stamp at the bottom of the title and colophon pages as well as the bottom blank margin of the frontispiece; gilt call number at base of spine and bookplate removal at front pastedown. Very clean otherwise.