The Practical Angler, Or The Art Of Trout-Fishing More Particularly Applied To Clear Water por W.C.Stewart - 1919

A. & C. Black Limited, 1919. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1919. Reprinted. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour images in back rear pocket. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to half title page, free endpaper and pastedowns. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

London, Black, 1927;. Reprint. New Edition. Good/ No dust jacket. xxxi, 212pp with Introduction and Note by W. Earl Hodgson and Including a leaflet of Coloured Facsimiles of the Flies used by Mr Stewart in the back pocket. Unfortunately this leaflet has been damp at some stage & the pages are stuck together at the bottom edge. Internally the copy is very good. Green covers wiht gitl title & decoration on the spine. .

A. & C. Black Limited, 1919. Hardcover. Good. 1919. No edition remarks. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fishing fly booklet in rear pocket. Clean pages with heavy tanning to front endpaper. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Mild warping to boards.

GB: Adam & Charles Black, 1961. Green cloth, gilt. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT lacks front end paper and facsimile booklet of original colour illustrations of files. Covers have white marks and spine ends are bumped. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped and a bit creased along the top edge. In loose polythene protector.. Reprint. Hardback. VG-/VG- Pc DW.

Hardcover. Very good. booklet of colour illus. of flies, index; xxxii+212pp. orig. cloth, No Jacket

Adam & Charles Black. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1950. New Edition Reprint. Hardcover. No dw, wear to extremeties of green cloth bds, spine v sl cocked, corners v gently bumped, foxing and personal lib-sticker/ small inscr to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages .

A & C Black Ltd. Fair with no dust jacket. 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth bds with gilt lettering to spine, booklet in pocket at rear of book, stain to bottom edge of upper panel, with some leaves having a small stain at bottom edge to second half of book, wear, with some fraying, to spine ends and corners, age-darkened to text block edge, tanning block to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages .

GB: Black, 1950. Book is a bit cocked and has some noticeable text edge spotting ELSE Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW is a bit browned over spine. In loose polythene protector. . Reprint. Hardback. VG/nrVG DW.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. All edges gilt. Covers and spine lettered and decorated in gilt, fly designs both covers. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Color frontispiece. 214pp. + opinions from the press. A crisp and clean copy throughout. From the Easton Press Library of Fly-fishing Classics. The book was first published in Edinburgh in 1857.. Collector's Edition. Full Black Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London: A. & C. Black Ltd, 1927. "Illustrations in colour - a book of flies for loch and stream as used by Mr. Stewart reproduced in facsimile in pocket at end of book". Some staining, rubbing and edgewear to boards, spine chipped to head and foot, crayon marks and pencil inscrip. to ffep.. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo.