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Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.
Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.
Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.
Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.
Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.

Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.

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Robert Blakey (1795–1878) rose from modest origins to become a prolific author and professor of logic and metaphysics at Queen’s College, Belfast. Though he wrote widely on philosophy and political literature, “it is, however, by his books on angling that he will be remembered with pleasure and gratitude by the largest circle of readers” (ODNB), reflecting his lifelong passion for the sport. His Hints on Angling (1846), published under the pseudonym Hackle Palmer, remains particularly valued by fishing enthusiasts.

Description: Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are Appended Some Brief Notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters. By Palmer Hackle, Esq.

London: W. W. Robinson, 69, Fleet Street. M.DCCC.XLVI [1846]. Octavo. xvi, 339, [1, advert], [2, blank]pp. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter red crushed morocco (or sheep?) over pebbled cloth boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered in second compartment “HINTS ON ANGLING”, date “1846” at foot, remaining compartments gilt-tooled with floral devices; front board stamped in gilt with a vignette of an angler with rod and creel seated on a large fish, rear board with a gilt vignette of fishing tackle and reeds; floral endpapers, top edge gilt. Leather quite rubbed and one leather corner on lower board is heavily rubbed and worn. Internally, a sound and clean copy; light foxing, here and there.

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Price: $75.00

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