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London: Printed for the Author, and sold by T.Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn...: 1753. First edition. Vol II only. (iv), 172pp, followed by (63pp) index to both volumes. Much on hounds, hawking, angling, fighting-cocks and gardening in this volume. Pencilled 1847 ownership name on half-title, and later one in ink on front pastedown. Contents otherwise unmarked, though with some browning and foxing. 12mo, in contemporary full calf with raised bands, ruled in gilt and with gilt '2' on the spine, knocked and scuffed, with spine ends slightly chipped and joints split but boards firm. VG.

Price: £120.00

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman; and J. Jones, 1848. First edition. xxiv, 239pp; with guarded tinted frontis of Fiskum Foss and the additional pictorial title page, as well as the eight celebrated hand-coloured illustrations of salmon flies by J. and H. Adlard. Has a high reputation as being the first and the best British book about angling in Norway. Some browning to the corners and edges of the frontis and both title-pages. A few small and faint spots of foxing to one plate (The Major) where the tissue guard was creased. Minimal toning to some edges. Otherwise all very clean and fresh, with original yellow coated endpapers, firm in the original green cloth, boards stamped in blind with crenellated border pattern, slightly mottled, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, bright. Spine ends puckered, corners good. A very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £4,850.00

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1883. Ninth Edition. xiv, (i) list of plates, 132pp + 24 catalogue. With Twenty Coloured Plates. Original black endpapers. 1887 ownership name in ink on half title, and in pencil on the (black) front fly. A few pencilled notes on back of rear free endpaper. Contents very fresh and clean. Firm in the original binding of bottle-green cloth, ruled and patterned in blind, front titled in gilt, bright. Extremities bumped, small nicks to spine ends, small repair to base of lower joint. With a little pale mottling and some trivial bubbling of the cloth. A very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £160.00

London: John Murray, 1891. First edition. x, 185pp. 1891 gift inscription facing title page. Contents clean and firm. In the original smooth pictorial paper-covered boards with recent plain unlabelled spine. Some soiling to boards and some wear to corners. Very nice copy. '..I should point out to all students of this ennobling profession that the very first thing they have to learn is to pick up a ferret.' (pp.20-21). Very Good.

Price: £75.00

York: T.A.J. Waddington, 1912. First edition. xiii, (iii), 117pp, +(xi) adverts: illustrated with a map and many photographs, including a foldout. With the armorial bookplate of Joseph Anderton. Slights' obituary from The British Sportsman of 1913 is neatly tipped onto the front free endpaper, and his death date has been neatly recorded in ink under the frontis photo portrait on the verso of the title page. Contents otherwise very clean, fresh and unmarked. In the original navy cloth with floral endpapers, front decorated in gilt with a mallard in flight, and titled in gilt on front and spine. Clean and firm, with extremities slightly blunted and with small scuffs to extremities and joints. Nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £360.00

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, & New York: Scribners, 1928. First reprint. xiv, 30pp, on heavy cartridge paper, interleaved with the 14 upaginated leaves bearing tipped-in plates, plus the frontis, each plate page reproducing his pencilled title and a sketch. Small neat name to front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean and fresh. Large quarto, in the original binding of fawn cloth, slightly faded at the edges, with 4 tiny dots to the top of the front board and with a small nick at the base of the spine. The printed title label on the front is very bright and fresh. In the protected rather worn brown paper jacket, the front reproducing Edwards' hand-painted titling, the back being a publishers' list, and the spine being plain. Wear to edges, with loss to spine ends, staining to bottom edge, and some minor soiling. VG+ in G dust-jacket.

Price: £75.00

London: Country Life, 1938. Large paper edition, limited to 250 copies: First edition. 205pp. With a colour frontis and 8 other colour plates with captioned guards, and 12 pencil plates. Limitation page on verso of half-title signed by Keith: a little minor foxing at this page and very faint spotting to pastedowns. Bookplate on front pastedown. Contents otherwise very clean. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed, with one or two foxing spots. Large quarto (11.5 x 8.2ins), in the original binding of green cloth titled in gilt: slight mottling and marks, otherwise clean, bright and firm. In the protected scarce dust jacket, chipped, with some foxing, soiling, and creasing to the edges. Spine ends have severe chips, losing most of the print; these encroach slightly on to the pictorial front panel, which is otherwise complete but for a squarish one-inch chip to the bottom edge, which loses most of Thorburn's signature. Rear panel is blank, rather soiled, with closed tears. Very Good+ in poor dust-jacket.
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Price: £220.00

Ipswich: Suffolk Agricultural Association, 1946, 1947, 1948. First and only printings. Stapled booklets. Pages slightly toned but clean, some corners turned. 1945: 100pp, including the soiled printed blue card covers. 1946: 136pp, lacking the covers. 1947: 180pp, with a foldout plan: printed cover discoloured, and loose and frayed at the spine, back creased with two inches torn off corner. Good.

Price: £40.00

Ipswich: Suffolk Agricultural Association, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959. First and only printings. Stapled booklets, each with over 300pp, a folding plan of the site, and an advertisement bookmark. Minor soiling to covers, and nick to spine of the 1959 book. [The 1956 programme, falling apart as the staples have rusted through, can be included in this lot at no extra charge if requested.] Very Good.
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Price: £40.00

Ipswich: Suffolk Agricultural Association, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963. First and only printings. Stapled booklets, each with c.250-300pp, and an advertisement bookmark. All were issued with a folding plan of the site, but that in the 1960 programme has been removed. Contents clean, light toning to covers. Very Good.
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Price: £40.00