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Chetham's Library urgently needs to raise funds to support its free services to the public.
As a part of a programme of fund-raising, the Library is now producing limited facsimile editions, and we will be building up a substantial list of titles over the next two years. All works will be produced in high-quality hardback cloth bindings.
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A new facsimile edition of James Chetham's
The Angler's Vade Mecum: Or, a compendious, yet full, discourse of Angling: Discovering the aptest methods and ways, exactest rules, properest baits, and choicest experiments for the catching of fresh water fish. Together with a brief discourse of fish-ponds, and not only the easiest, but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish, whether belonging to rivers, or ponds; and the laws concerning angling, and the preservation of such fish.
Universally agreed to be one of the most significant works on the subject, James Chetham's descriptive account of the art and science of fly-fishing is written with experience, clarity, and an acerbic wit. First published anonymously in 1681, the volume deals with every aspect of the sport, containing Chetham's observations on the most commonly encountered fish, descriptions of the dub-flies to be used each month, and an appreciative chapter on roasting, broiling, or stewing one's catch, which even includes an 'excellent French bread to eat fish with'. Praise for his prose style is to be found in Westwood and Satchell's Bibliotheca Piscatoria of 1883: 'He escapes from the category of manual makers, and takes rank, as one of the original writers on the sport'.
The third edition, originally published in 1700. Measuring 15.5 x 21.5 cm. 326 pages with index and two pages of facsimile cuts. Elegantly bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine.
To order a copy of this limited facsimile edition, please send a cheque for £22.50 (including postage and packing within the UK; please contact us for overseas rates) to:
Chetham's Library
Long Millgate
Manchester
M3 1SB
And a new facsimile edition of:
Felix Folio: the hawkers and street dealers of the north of England manufacturing districts; including quack doctors, cheap Johns, book-sellers by hand, bookstall-keepers, watch-sellers, needle-dodgers, "land sharks," alias "turnpike sailors," alias "duffers," nut-sellers, bird-sellers, wild-fowl dealers, "dollopers," flying stationers, street ballad sellers, cheese hawkers, cum multis aliis. Being some account of their dealings, dodgings, and doings, by Felix Folio [pseud. of John Page]
The second edition, originally published in Manchester by Abel Heywood in 1858. Measuring 15 x 21.5 cm, 140 pages. Elegantly bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering on the spine.
An extremely rare and significant work on street trades in the nineteenth century written by John Page, superintendent of Manchester markets. This lively and readable volume documents some of the frauds and cons in use across the north of England, including important accounts of the street trade in books, ballads and broadsides. Containing a wealth of information not found elsewhere, it will be of great interest to historians of the book trade and students of social history and popular culture.
To order a copy of this limited facsimile edition, please send a cheque for £25.00 (including postage and packing within the UK; please contact us for overseas rates) to:
Chetham's Library
Long Millgate
Manchester
M3 1SB
Our first two titles to press are both interesting and amusing accounts of towns in times past:
The hand-book of Llandudno and its vicinity, including Conway and Penmaenmawr, by John Hicklin
London: Whittaker, 1861
vi, 158 p., illustrated, folding plan.
History and description of the town and parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county of Lancaster, and the village of Dukinfield, in the county of Chester, by James Butterworth.
Ashton: Cunningham, 1823
188 p.
and are available for £22.50 (including postage and packing within the UK; please contact us for overseas rates). For all card payments, please use the facilities on the Abebooks site (preferred); if you would like to pay by cheque, postal order or cash, please email the Librarian.
Facsimiles of rare and interesting eighteenth-century medical dissertations and pamphlets will follow. If you can think of a work we hold that you would want in facsimile, please let us know!
In addition, we are also offering for sale on ABE books copies of the Library's printed catalogues, and a number of other publications, mainly duplicated stock donated to the Library. All proceeds go to the maintenance of the Library, and we very much welcome the donation of material that we could sell for the benefit of the Library.
Vigilant and concerned readers are assured that we are not selling library stock, nor will any catalogued or accessioned item be offered for sale. Rather, the sales of material here will contribute towards ensuring that the Library will continue to be able to make all its material freely available to readers. 'Duplicate stock' in this context is strictly limited to uncatalogued, mass-produced printed material which has not been accessioned into stock, and of which the Library already has at least one other good copy.
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