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West Midlands Responses - Book IV, Part 9

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 9: Reptiles. Includes questions IV.9.1 Worms - IV.9.11 Herrings.

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Coarse fish, with notes on taxidermy, fishing in the lower Thames, etc

Wheeley, Charles H

[1897]

On cover: Routledge's country books.

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The contemplative and practical angler : being a complete treatise on that pleasing and healthful recreation, with all the most approved methods of angling, &c.& c.; prognostications of the weather; and a variety of other useful information never before published

Wells, Joseph (1855-1929)

1842

Second ed., improved, published in 1853 under title: The temperance fishing book. Errors in paging: p. iv followed by p. [ix]. Temperance fishing book.

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Arthur Ransome Archive

Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967)

1847-2000

Comprises: 1) literary manuscripts and typescripts, including Ransome's original illustrations for his children's books, fishing essays, sailing notes, drafts for his autobiography, diaries, notebooks...

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The innocent epicure, or, The art of angling : a poem

J. S (fl. 1697); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)

1697

Preface signed: N. Tate. Published later, 1741, with title: Angling. Sig. A8, preceding p. 1, bears Playford's booklist and Brown's fishing tackle advertisement. A paraphrase of Horace's Epistle...

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Sound Recording, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

23 December 1973

Rob Gibson, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career and the changes observed in the fishing industry; mussel beds; mussel baits and baiting of fishing lines, tools used; fishing boa...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 5 July 1975 , sings 'Cod Banging', and talks about verses added, singing style and Percy Webb; sings and comments on 'Paradise Street'; learning to play the ...

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Tiddlers, or, The art of fishing for sticklebacks : a paper read before The Sette of Odd Volumes at Apothecaries' Hall,... June 3rd, 1958

Lister, Raymond (1919-); Sette of Odd Volumes (Book club)

1958

"This edition is limited to 133 copies...."

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