Notable Angling Literature, James Robb — 1st Edition

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Notable Angling Literature, James Robb — 1st Edition

Name: Notable Angling Literature, James Robb — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
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Publication: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1947

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 229, [2], plus frontispiece and 8 plates.

Condition Report: Very Good. Bound in the original mid-blue cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt leaping-fish motif to the spine, the binding remains square, firm, and structurally sound, showing a band of sun-toning along the upper board margins and spine head alongside mild bumping to the spine extremities. The text block edges are evenly age-toned with dust-darkening to the top edge, while the wartime economy paper leaves remain clean, crisp, and securely held at the hinges, bearing a neat contemporary ink ownership signature ("Marley Denwood.") to the upper margin of the title page and natural show-through to the thin prelims. The original yellow and dark brown dust jacket is intact and unmended, though price-clipped to the lower corner of the front flap, exhibiting creasing, shallow chipping, and small nicks along the upper edge and spine head, light surface rubbing to the dark brown panels, and mild dust-soiling to the white rear advertisement panel.

Catalogue Note: First edition, stated "First printing" on the copyright page, produced in conformity with post-war Authorised Economy Standards. The volume is illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece reproducing the woodcut and black-letter opening from the 1496 Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (printed by W. D. Lamb, Edinburgh), accompanied by eight monochrome plates depicting historic angling portraits, title pages, and sporting illustrations, and concluding with two unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements.

This copy bears the ownership signature of Marley Denwood (1890–1967) of Cockermouth, Cumberland, a Lakeland dialect poet, naturalist, and angler who co-authored An Angler's Catch: Essays on Nature, Fishing and Books (1926) with his twin brother, Ernest Russell Denwood.

Because the edition was manufactured using fragile wartime paper stock and thin dust wrappers, copies surviving in the original dust jacket are noticeably scarcer in the trade than cloth-only examples.

A cornerstone survey of British and international fishing books, Notable Angling Literature traces the development of the sport's written heritage across more than four centuries. Dr James Robb guides the reader from the fifteenth-century treatise attributed to Dame Juliana Berners and Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler through the golden age of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fly-fishing and coarse-angling scholarship. Combining historical narrative with critical commentary and a classified bibliography, the work serves as both an engaging literary history and a practical reference for collectors assembling an angling library.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: James Robb

Book Publisher: Herbert Jenkins Limited

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Sport & Games

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 231

Book Publication Year: 1947

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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