Henry The Erne, its legends and its fly fishing.

by NEWLAND

£1,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

NEWLAND, Henry The Erne, its legends and its fly fishing. Chapman Hall. 1851. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering and vignette to front, gilt lettering to spine, sometime rebacked with original spine laid on; pp. xvi + 395, hand-coloured frontispiece and title-page, folding map and 4 plates; extremities a little bumped, very good. Provenance : front pastedown with library plate of Flyfishers' Club, with deaccession stamp. First edition. Scarce. Henry Garrett Newland (1804 - 60) was the rector of Westbourne in West Sussex. Most of his published works were books and pamphlets in support of the Tractarian movement, but he also wrote a work on Norwegian landscape and this entertaining, anecdotal volume on fishing in Ireland. W S 155. SKU: 2109233

• Binding: Hardcover

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