Lot 219
Ashendene Press.- Berners (Dame Juliana) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, one of 150 copies, original limp vellum, 1903
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Ashendene Press.- Berners (Dame Juliana) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, one of 150 copies on paper in Subiaco type, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations copied from the original edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496, first initial printed in red, etched bookplate of James Curle of Priorwood Melrose, original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in gilt, uncut, spine very slightly soiled, [Franklin p.236; Hornby XVI], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1903.
⁂ Beautifully printed facsimile of the first English book on angling.
Description
Ashendene Press.- Berners (Dame Juliana) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, one of 150 copies on paper in Subiaco type, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations copied from the original edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496, first initial printed in red, etched bookplate of James Curle of Priorwood Melrose, original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in gilt, uncut, spine very slightly soiled, [Franklin p.236; Hornby XVI], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1903.
⁂ Beautifully printed facsimile of the first English book on angling.
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