Sea fishing
John Bickerdyke
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3189732
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, 513 p, [18] leaves of plates :. ill., figs. ;. 20 cm. (8vo). Pencil price on verso of front free endpaper: '10/-, 9/-‘. Loose at p. 9 is advert for The Badminton Magazine. Provenance: Purchased from A. Drewe. Binding: Half blue leather binding, with light brown cloth over boards, with gold lettering on spine and royal crest in gold on front. Crest has mottos: `Honi soit qui mal y pense' and `Mutare vel timore sperno'. Blue linen bookmark inserted. Gilt top edge. Many pages uncut. Uniformly bound with series. On inside front cover is ticket of Redin & Co., Cambridge [bookbinders?].
Makers and roles
John Bickerdyke