Nobbes, Ro[bert]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

The Compleat Troller, or, the Art of Trolling, with a Description of all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials Requisite Thereto... by a Lover of the Sport London: by T. James, 1682
paper, ink, leather

8vo (138 x 90 mm). 2 woodcuts in text; some headlines cropped. Nineteenth-century green morocco; front cover detached but present.

Literature

Wing N1193; Westwood & Satchell, p.156

Catalogue Note

first edition. Nobbes was "the earliest...that discoursed at large, and in substantial shape, on it." W&S. This is the true first edition with hook on p.37 pointing outwards and a broken 'E' on the title, not the facsimile of c.1790 often mistaken for a first.