Jones's Guide to Norway, and Salmon-fisher's Pocket Companion

  • Additional lithographed title, lithographed frontispiece, and 8 hand-colored engraved plates of flies by J. and H. Adlard. xxii,
  • London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row; and J. Jones, 111 Jermyn Street, 1848
By Tolfrey, Frederic, editor
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row; and J. Jones, 111 Jermyn Street, 1848. First edition. Additional lithographed title, lithographed frontispiece, and 8 hand-colored engraved plates of flies by J. and H. Adlard. xxii, 239 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Original green cloth gilt. Tidy ink gift inscription on verso of half title dated 1859. Skilfully rebacked preserving original spine (cloth a bit toned, corners lightly bumped). Very good plus. First edition. Additional lithographed title, lithographed frontispiece, and 8 hand-colored engraved plates of flies by J. and H. Adlard. xxii, 239 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. The very scarce first edition of the first British work on Norwegian angling. Issued at the instigation of J. Jones, a tackle dealer of Jermyn Street, who wrote the introduction. As Charles Woods notes in Bibliotheca Salmo Salar, “It is a cornerstone.”. Westwood & Satchell, p. 210; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 34

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