Author: John J. Brown

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9781330052105

Excerpt from The American Angler's Guide, or Complete Fisher's Manual The whole affair is highly creditable to the taste and skill of the author, and the enterprise of the publishers. - Literary World. The author of this volume is practically acquainted with the numerous topics embraced in his treatise, which, we apprehend, is the most "complete" manual of the art ever published in this country. It seems to us that nothing has been omitted. The angler who has carefully studied its pages and followed its instructions, may calculate upon a full share of success. As a book apart from its utility to those who indulge with the rod and line, it affords pleasant reading, and is a beautiful specimen of typographic neatness and elegant illustration. It is a book that we shall value. - N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. It is the most veritable combination of the "utile et dulce" that it has been our good fortune of late to meet with. It is a work which may be consulted on almost any point within Piscator's category, from the tying of a hook to the landing of a salmon - from the making of a fly to that of a fish-pond - it is a monument of angling lore from base to apex. With what a gusto does its author relate each characteristic anecdote - with what relish portray the scenes he loves to revel in - with what tenacity of memory is every feat of more than ordinary skill treasured up in all its minutiæ of detail, weight, and weapon. It is illustrated by life-like portraits of the principal angle fish of America, a accompanied by their biographies. It is enveloped in one of the most "taking" forms that eye every was tickled with. In a word, it is one of the most practical, the most perfect, and cheapest of books, "That e'er chased from drowsy lids dull sleep away, To cast a fly, and speckled trout to play!" - N. Y. Literary American. Its claims to patronage is already established in its favor. We can see, however, at a glance, that it is eminently a practical work, although we find scattered up and down, especially in the introductory remarks, signs that the poetical view of the "jolly fisher's life" is not altogether unknown to the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.