Fishing.- [Nobbes (Robert)] The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling. With A Description of all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials requisite thereto..., first edition, with break in the lowest leg of the 'E' in fourth line of title, 2 woodcut illustrations, trimmed affecting first line of title, headlines and a few signatures/catchwords, very lightly browned, 19th century green morocco, backstrip with small portion of loss to head, rubbing to extremities, upper cover detached, g.e., [Pforzheimer 771; Westwood & Satchell, p.156; Wing N1193], small 8vo, T. James for Tho. Helder, 1682.

⁂ "Nobbes is commonly called 'The father of trollers'... He was the earliest, indeed, that discoursed at large, and in a substantial shape" upon the subject (W&S).