young angler's pocket companion, or, A new and complete treatise on the art of angling
Subtitle: as may be practised with success in every river in England ... : directing ... the young angler to perfect himself in this art ... : either as to paste or bait-fishing of any sort, or fly-fishing, natural or artificial : ... also the art of making artificial flies, whipping-lines, and rods, and the truest method of catching ... large fish : to which is now added a new and most successful method of trolling and laying trimmers :with a copper-plate shewing the different methods of baiting the gorge-hook ... together with the best method of smelt-fishing ...
By: by Ralph Cole, Gent.
Contributors: Bassam, Robert, bookseller.; Snow, Edwin F., former owner.; Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection.
Publisher: Printed for R. Bassam, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Temple of the Muses, Hamilton, the Fishing-Tackle Shops, and of all the Booksellers
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: New and complete treatise on the art of angling.
Notes: Signatures: A-I⁶.

Preface signed R.A. Cole, p. vi.

Blakey, Robert, Historical sketches of angling literature, p. 309.

Westwood & Satchell. Bibliotheca Piscatoria, p. 62.

WSU MASC copy has hand-colored frontispiece.

002-114664345.

WSU MASC copy has bookplate of Edwin F. Snow.