Hardcover. Three-quarter black marocco and green cloth; raised bands; spine lettering gilt; spine fish vignettes gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. xxiii, 268 pp. Illustrated with 15 engraved plates, including 2 colourplates; 3 textual illustrations; colour frontispiece. Introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell, editor of The Sportsman’s Library, under whose rubric this volume appears. Bookplate on front pastedown; leather rubbed, with spine sunned to brown; rubbing & minor buckling to cloth; light foxing to prelims & rear matter; light foxing (mostly marginal) to some plates; else a nice tight copy with Near Fine interior and, despite its defects, a still very impressive exterior.
Book ID: 26422
Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing on the Tweed. With a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, Etc.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine.
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Book ID | 26422 |
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Publisher | Edward Arnold |
Publisher Place | London |
Publisher Year | 1898 |
Size | 4to |
Language | English |