FALKUS and BULLER'S FRESHWATER FISHING. A book of tackles and techniques, with some notes on various fish, fish recipes, fishing safety and sundry other matters. By Fred Buller and Hugh Falkus. First edition.

FALKUS and BULLER'S FRESHWATER FISHING. A book of tackles and techniques, with some notes on various fish, fish recipes, fishing safety and sundry other matters. By Fred Buller and Hugh Falkus. First edition.

HARDY BROTHERS: THE MASTERS, THE MEN AND THEIR REELS. 1873 - 1939. By John Drewett. Standard edition in dust-wrapper.

HARDY BROTHERS: THE MASTERS, THE MEN AND THEIR REELS. 1873 - 1939. By John Drewett. Standard edition in dust-wrapper.

FISHING TACKLE FOR COLLECTORS. By Charles Kewley and Charles Farrar.

1987 1st edition. 4to (197 x 260mm). Ppvi,160. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, short bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in silver.

A useful guide to collecting tackle - mostly British, now scarce. Chapters include: Foreword by James Leighton Hardy; Bibliography; Rods; British reels; American reels; Flies and related equipment; Accessories; Hardy's of Alnwick; Manufacturers and their catalogues; The artistic angle. Two appendices give "a list of known fishing tackle retailers and manufacturers from the last 350 years", and, "Hardy reels, and their dates of commencement of production and when discontinued, together with numbers of some of the reels whose production was confined to the period 1925 to 1939, taken from the Hardy Production Book for that period, the previous records having been destroyed during World War II."
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Author Kewley (Charles) and Farrar (Charles).
Book Code 2916
ISBN 0856673293 / 0856673293.
Book Description Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1987
Publisher Sotheby's Publications.
Place London.