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A North-Country Angler [Doubleday, Thomas].
The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs, Now First Collected and Edited.
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London;
Date of Publication: 1852
Stock Code: 11699
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., vi, [2], 167, [1] (musical notation for the Airs pp.,159-167). Bound by Remnant and Edmonds in bottle-green finely diced blind-embossed cloth with gilt titles to spine and convivial scene of fishermen relaxing after their sport in gilt to upper board. Cover cloth lightly spine sunned with wear at tips; edges rubbed and corners bruised. Text-block cracked with associated loose gathering, little scattered light foxing. A good copy. Scarce collection of 16 folk songs from Coquetdale in Northumberland, with notes and music, comprising Robert Roxby’s contributions to the “Newcastle Fishers’ Garlands” with others, accompanied with a history of their composition and life of Roxby. £85.00