The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle from The Book of Saint Albans.; With an introductory essay
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First edition
New York: Printed at the Gillis Press for Charles Scribner's Sons , 1903. First edition thus, 1/160 copies on hand-made paper, patterned after the traditional Old English character first used by Wynkyn de Worde. Originally published in The Book of Saint Albans Westminster, 1496 . 8vo. 4 , lxxxvi pp. The Henry W. Poor copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Lovely edition of the first work on angling printed in English. Lacking the silk ties,
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