Angling.- Bowlker (Richard) The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts Especially Fly-Fishing containing A particular Account of the several Sprts of Fresh-Water Fish, with their most proper Baits..., first edition, bound with 36ff. blank leaves at rear, the first with a 19th century ink manuscript entry, ink inscription and later slip to pastedown, contemporary calf, upper cover detached and with abrasion, [Westwood & Satchell, p.39], 12mo, Worcester, by M. Olivers, 1747
⁂ The MS entry at rear dated 1813 is a draft for a letter to the editor of the Monthly Magazine, giving advice for "readers who may be desirous of obtaining good carp", to sow hay seeds in the mud in April, providing good fattening food for the winter.
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