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THE BORDER ANGLER

THE BORDER ANGLER

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A 'Shilling Edition' of the 1858 work. The Tweed, Ettrick, Teviot and Whitadder are among the rivers 'commanded by The North British Railway' to feature in this guide to fishing in the Scottish Borders. There are also snippets of verse, remarks on Borders towns and, in the appendix, the amended Tweed Act of 1857. 

16mo. viii + 208pp. Early green cloth. Book-plate of George Campbell on pastedown, ownership inscription on front free-endpaper, foxing to prelims and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.  [W&S, 38]

Date
[c.1863]
Publisher
Edinburgh: John Menzies
Author
Andrew BERTRAM

£65.00 (Code: 72023)

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