Fishing Book, British Fresh Water Fishes
Fishing Book, British Fresh Water Fishes
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Two Book Volumes Of 'British Freshwater Fishes' By The Rev. W. Houghton.
First edition (1879) fishing book, bevelled edge hard bound copies of 'British Freshwater Fishes' by The Rev. W. Houghton. M.A., F.L.S. The two volumes are covered in pebbled faux-red leather cloth with gilt title on front and spine, also having gilt pictorial vignettes of an angler wearing waders in the river holding a fish on the covers, with black pictorial decorations to the corners of a geometric image of three-fish-one-head. These fishing books were illustrated by A.F. Lydon and published by 'London: William Mackenzie, 69, Ludgate Hill E.C. Edinburgh and Dublin'. The forty colour chromolithographic plates (with tissue guards) depict fish either in or by their natural habitat, also there are many engraved views of regions where the fish are found, with extensive text discussing the characteristics of the species and their habitats, approximately 100 pages per book.
Contents:- Perch, Ruffe or Pope, Miller's Thumb, Three-spined Stickleback, Ten-spined Stickleback, Four-spined Stickleback, Short-spined Stickleback, Carp, Crucian Carp, Prussian Carp, Golden Carp, Barbel, Gudgeon, Roach, Chub, Dace, Graining, Rudd or Red-Eye, Azurine, Dobule, Tench, Golden Tench, Common Bream, White Bream or Breamflat, Pomeranian Bream, Bleak, Minnow, Loach, Spined Loach or Groundling, Allis Shad, Twaite Shad, Pike, Salmon, Salmon Trout, Sewen, Bull Trout, Galway Sea Trout, Short-Headed Salmon, Silvery Salmon, Common Trout, Black-Finned Trout, Loch Stennis Trout, Lochleven Trout, Gillaroo Trout, Great Lake Trout, Windermere Charr, Cole's Charr, Gray's Carr, Torgoch or Welsh Charr, Alpine Charr, Loch Killin Charr, Grayling, Gwyniad, Vendace, Pollan, Powan, Smelt, Sparling, Burbot, Eel-pout, Sturgeon, Sharp-Nosed Eel, Broad-Nosed Eel, Sea Lampray, Lampern or River Lamprey, Small Lamprey or Planer's Lamprey.
Size shown is for each book.
Dimensions:
1850-1899
1879
Paper
Covers are scuffed, a few loose pages, some foxing throughout. As far as we can ascertain all pages are there.
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 fishing book, bevelled edge hard bound copies of 'British Freshwater Fishes' by The Rev. W. Houghton. M.A., F.L.S. The two volumes are covered in pebbled faux-red leather cloth with gilt title on front and spine, also having gilt pictorial vignettes of an angler wearing waders in the river holding a fish on the covers, with black pictorial decorations to the corners of a geometric image of three-fish-one-head. These fishing books were illustrated by A.F. Lydon and published by 'London: William Mackenzie, 69, Ludgate Hill E.C. Edinburgh and Dublin'. The forty colour chromolithographic plates (with tissue guards) depict fish either in or by their natural habitat, also there are many engraved views of regions where the fish are found, with extensive text discussing the characteristics of the species and their habitats, approximately 100 pages per book.Contents:- Perch, Ruffe or Pope, Miller's Thumb, Three-spined Stickleback, Ten-spined Stickleback, Four-spined Stickleback, Short-spined Stickleback, Carp, Crucian Carp, Prussian Carp, Golden Carp, Barbel, Gudgeon, Roach, Chub, Dace, Graining, Rudd or Red-Eye, Azurine, Dobule, Tench, Golden Tench, Common Bream, White Bream or Breamflat, Pomeranian Bream, Bleak, Minnow, Loach, Spined Loach or Groundling, Allis Shad, Twaite Shad, Pike, Salmon, Salmon Trout, Sewen, Bull Trout, Galway Sea Trout, Short-Headed Salmon, Silvery Salmon, Common Trout, Black-Finned Trout, Loch Stennis Trout, Lochleven Trout, Gillaroo Trout, Great Lake Trout, Windermere Charr, Cole's Charr, Gray's Carr, Torgoch or Welsh Charr, Alpine Charr, Loch Killin Charr, Grayling, Gwyniad, Vendace, Pollan, Powan, Smelt, Sparling, Burbot, Eel-pout, Sturgeon, Sharp-Nosed Eel, Broad-Nosed Eel, Sea Lampray, Lampern or River Lamprey, Small Lamprey or Planer's Lamprey.Size shown is for each book.){kind=link}