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or, Compleat Fly-Fisher..., fifth edition, lacking engraved frontispiece and advertisement leaf at end, Birmingham, M.Swinney..., 1788 bound with Best (Thomas) A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling..., second edition, without engraved frontispiece (not issued with all copies), also lacking advertisement leaf at end, C.Stalker, [1789], together 2 works in 1 vol., the first with a few pencil annotations, light spotting and soiling, manuscript note dated 1903 "G.W.Oliver's receipt to catch big carp" etc. loosely inserted, modern half morocco, spine ruled in gilt and stamped in blind, uncut, [Thacher p. 75 & 57; W&S pp.39-40 & 31], 8vo & 12mo