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2010257301Stone Harbor; Far Hills New Jersey 2010. Approx 60 linear feet 31 file boxes and 1 box of oversize material. Fine. Approx 60 linear feet 31 file boxes and 1 box of oversize material. The Archive of Meadow Run Press sporting book publisher 1989-2010.<br/> For two decades William D. Trego's Meadow Run Press set the standards for American sporting book publishing and issued a series of finely produced original works by new and established authors as well as sporting club histories privately printed angling volumes and a select group of reprints of neglected classics. The books among them Sea Level and Marquesa by Jeffrey Cardenas The Henryville Fly Fishers by Ernest Schwiebert Live Water by Tom McGuane and the cult classic The Starlight Creek Angling Society by Harry Middleton are notable for their content and for a consistent attention to design illustration and the form of the finished book. Many of the titles were also issued in limited deluxe editions with special bindings and additional material by the artists and authors; several were printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson of Austin Texas. The books were uniformly well received by reviewers and readers alike and several were reprinted on multiple occasions. <br/> The publisher Mr. William D. Trego variously of Stone Harbor and Far Hills New Jersey was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art now the University of the Arts Temple University and Villanova University. He established the press as his interests in collecting evolved from American literature to American sporting books and to the outdoors. From modest beginnings in 1989 with a reprint of a classic American angling work he undertook to publish original works and commissioned suitable illustration art from living American artists including Peter Corbin John Swan John Rice and others. The Meadow Run Press books reflected the publisher's style and something of his character as well: Tom McGuane now a legendary figure in American outdoor writing wrote to Mr. Trego "The books are beautiful and you've done such a fantastic job on this project - in every way! I've been writing for a living for almost three decades and this is by far my most pleasant publishing experience" autograph letter signed dated 27 December 1996 in the archive.<br/> The Archive includes editorial business and production correspondence relating to the books and to their sale to mail-order and trade customers with significant exchanges with authors Tom McGuane Ernest Schwiebert Tosh Brown David Swanson John Cole and others as well as with the artists commissioned by the press. Mr. Trego views The Starlight Creek Angling Society as one of the most significant accomplishments of the press and this is documented in the original typescript of the book as well as in the extensively edited drafts and abundant correspondence with the author who died untimely soon after the book was published. The other important discovery of the press was Jeffrey Cardenas whose first book Marquesa has become a modern salt water angling classic. M.L. Biscotti's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1926-1985 1997 is a significant addition to the tradition of sporting reference works. Mr. Trego is himself a well-regarded writer and one large archive box relating to his earlier articles is present. The archive also includes a variety of submission manuscripts for works that the press declined to publish.<br/> As a bookman Mr. Trego is known for his his meticulous insistence on condition; all of the publisher's copies of books are in superb condition most with warm inscriptions from the authors and often with original drawings by the artists. Much of the smaller format artwork has been put into boxes to accompany notable typescripts such as the raw unedited typescript of Schwiebert's Henryville Fly Fishers or the substantial archive of Harry Middleton material. Generally the condition of materials in the archive files is fine; some of the correspondence is on thermal fax paper and thus may present conservation issues in the longer term. Mr. Trego is at work on a book on Harry Middleton and Starlight Creek and retains all publishing rights in the Middleton material suitable acknowledgment of the owner of the archive would be made when the book is published. A full description of the contents is available.<br/> A substantial archive and a rich glimpse into American sporting publishing at the close of the twentieth century.<br/><br/>DETAILED LISTING OF CONTENTS:<br/>Box 1: Schwiebert Henryville Fly Fishers publisher's copy inscr. by author & artist; Henryville Fly Fishers illustrations by Taylor Kane boxed; Doherty Notes from a Fishing Journal 2010 publisher's copy with inserted note and photograph from author; original illustrations by Chet Reneson for Notes from a Fishing Journal 2010; Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club publisher's copy inscr. by authors with set of proofs of same; Cardenas Marquesa publisher's copy inscr. by author; McGuane Live Water inscr. by author & with signed watercolor by artist John Swan; Spencer-Churchill Tarpon Fishing 1998 ed. inscr. by artist John Rice & Randy White author of intro.; Spencer-Churchill Tarpon Fishing deluxe ed. copy no. 1; Brown Megalops publisher's copy inscr. by author & artist John Rice; Rice original illustrations for Tosh Brown's Megalops boxed; D. Swanson Water Music publisher's copy inscr. by author; Izaak Walton publisher's copy inscr. by H. Carmichael; Cole Fish of My Years inscr. by author & artist; R. Swanson Record Atlantic Salmon bound proofs; R. Swanson Grand Cascapedia Giants one of 3 final proofs; Middleton Rivers of Memory inscr. to WDT with typed note.<br/><br/>Box 1A : Starlight Creek Angling Society : Original first draft computer printout typescript with numerous pencil and ink corrections by Harry Middleton second draft typescript with numerous alterations original illustration art ten pencil drawings by Peter Corbin camera ready pages for book trial case binding and slipcase for book in custom green and tan cloth case.<br/><br/>Box 1B : Starlight Creek Angling Society : Middleton Correspondence and Galleys including approx. 30 letters from Middleton to Trego successive digital galley proofs marked for corrections publisher's correspondence and a dummy binding in custom green and tan cloth case.<br/><br/>Box 2: R. Swanson Grand Cascapedia Giants deluxe binding copy no. 18 inscr. to publisher; R. Swanson Grand Cascapedia Giants trade issue inscr. to publisher; Brown Megalops f&g sheets unbound in sample cover & slipcase; Schwiebert Death of a Riverkeeper deluxe ed. copy P/1 of 5 for presentation; R. Swanson Fish Models Plaques and Effigies proofs & dummy; Doherty Notes from a Fishing Journal 2010 author's typescript & successive proofs; Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club successive proofs; Trego Horses & Hounds Sporting Art of Barbara Howard computer typescript & proofs; John Rice proof/camera ready artwork.<br/><br/>Box 3: Schwiebert Henryville Fly Fishers original unedited computer generated typescript inscr. to publisher plus a duplicate incomplete or shorter copy; McGuane Live Water deluxe ed. copy no. 1 with inserted correspondence; Cardenas Sea Level deluxe ed. copy no. 1; D. Swanson Water Music deluxe ed. copy no. 1; McPhee American Shad trade issue signed by author & artist; Rice original illustrations for American Shad in half morocco slipcase; Sea Level Original Artwork.<br/><br/>Box 4: Garrison & Carmichael Master's Guide 1999 deluxe ed. copy no. 1 with matching box containing artwork; Garrison & Carmichael Master's Guide 1999 blue lines disk sample; promotional materials for fourth ed.; American Shad production proofs; Reiger Silver King camera ready pages; Caught on the Fly blue lines; Starlight Creek blue lines; Sloan Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here duplicated typescript.<br/><br/>Box 5: from MRP flat files: Lamb Bright Salmon & Brown Trout proofs sample case bindings & ephemera Gordon Allen etchings; Cloverleaf Studios bindery samples for Garrison & Carmichael<br/><br/>Box 6: MRP files: correspondence re: Deluxe Editions Spencer-Churchill Biscotti Live Water; Dimock<br/><br/>Box 7: MRP files: Connett My Friend the Trout production files; sales records Reiger Wetzel Middleton; correspondence with printers & binders<br/><br/>Box 8: MRP files: Marquesa Deluxe Hoagy Carmichael thick Dana Lamb Taxes Cole 2 Cardenas thick; production; taxes<br/><br/>Box 9: MRP files: Wetzel deluxe Caught on the Fly Trego Genealogy Book of the Tarpon Mailing Lists<br/><br/>Box 10: from MRP flat files: McGuane ephemera labels & cards; Live Water f&gs; drawings proofs & correspondence with John Cole re: Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat also with John Swan re: art; digital files for Tarpon & Thanatopfish Marquesa labels; stamping dies for Tosh Brown Megalops; Master's Guide 1994 f&gs; trial binding American Shad; file copy Dimock 2004 rpt; Peter Corbin 2 original fly drawings; Spencer-Churchill deluxe f&g sheets; Water Music production proofs; Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club constitution & rule book; Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club spiral bound proofs 2 copies 9/20/2003; small folder MRP logo & other camera ready images proof photos; 3 TLS from Nick Lyons; Thanatopfish sample case binding & ephemera<br/><br/>Box 11: MRP files: Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat edited typescripts & correspondence with author John Cole; sales & correspondence files for: Angler's Hope Deluxe Master's Guide Deluxe Water Music Henryville Deluxe Henryville Deluxe Megalops Marquesa 3rd ptg Stephen Sloan Carmichael Sea Level<br/><br/>Box 12: MRP files: production and sales correspondence re: Huntsman in the South Megalops Dimock Spruce Creek incl. signed contract American Shad incl. ALS from McPhee contract with FSG signed by J. Galassi; Schwiebert deluxe Spencer Churchill production<br/><br/>Box 13: MRP files: Bonefish Deluxe Bonefish George Reiger includes typescript for Silver King Silver King correspondence sales & invoices<br/><br/>Box 14: MRP files: Thomas McGuane Live Water production 6 ALS McGuane to WDT 3 ALS from Dan Daly with 2 drawings; Biscotti American Sporting Books editorial production & sales correspondence incl. typescript foreword by Gene Hill; David Swanson; Garrison Carmichael production & sales 1998 ed. incl. camera ready copy for title page; Izaak Walton production etc.; Sloan/Prosek Deluxe; West of Key West Deluxe production sales typescript of intro by Hawk Pollard ALS from John Rice re: artwork<br/><br/>Box 15: WDT WRITINGS: A Ram's Life; Surfing; NJ Countryside; Lambing; Equestrian; Aloft; Mennonite Barn; Making Hay; Bicycle Fishing; Country Music; Blue notes from an Indian Summer; also Bicycling related materials<br/><br/>Box 16: Patricia Trego From Chocolate Mousse to Carrot Juice 1988 2 file copies; MRP overrun: Caught on the Fly sewn & trimmed sheets 13; Marquesa last gathering multiple copies; also a set of sewn & trimmed sheets of Leiser The Dettes<br/><br/>Box 17: from MRP Flat files: Cole John Summer's Tarpon by A. Rusty Rat original unpublished typescript & correspondence; Cole John Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat proofs set of f&gs original pencils by John Swan for chapter headings; trial bindings 10; correspondence with James Prosek re: illus for Sloan; Izaak Walton f&gs; extra 3D glasses; shad photos; Fishing Zone 356 1/2/99 air tape Schwiebert/Henryville; Boone & Crockett Fair Chase 1998 article on Biscotti 4 copies<br/><br/>Box 18: from MRP flat files: Schwiebert Henryville proofs; Keith Russell photocopy submission typescript of The Salmoniac 2002; Victor Johnson photocopy submission typescript of History of Fly Lines in America 2003; Sloan Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here proofs bluelines CD-Rom; Swanson Water Music file copy of trade ed.; Cardenas ALS re: color prints; Brown Role Casting typescript 13 pp.; Izaak Walton f&gs; stamping dies for Izaak Walton & Water Music; Unidentified artist twelve etchings of flies titled & signed JHS<br/><br/>Box 19: from MRP flat files: Sea level production materials; Marquesa camera ready copy; trial binding original illustrations by A.D. Tinkham stamping dies portfolio & ephemera; Swanson Water Music deluxe signature sheets extras; MRP ephemera including extras of Wetzel labels Wetzel portrait photos in glassine Ed Shenk flies in tin; Connett My Friend the Trout camera ready & production materials<br/><br/>Box 20: from MRP flat files: Sea Level production materials f&gs photos of Cardenas and others ephemera CD of Sloan radio interview; Marquesa 5 sets f&gs 1 loose in trial case binding ephemera; C.D. Clarke original artwork for 1995 edition of Dimock with f&gs; Diane Peebles original pencil drawing of leaping tarpon signed dP frontispiece for Fish of My Years and original art for chapter headings; proof transparencies & disks for 1997 MRP catalogue; original photo of Wetzel plus a few gatherings of 1950 ed.; other production materials; Keckeissen Roger G. duplicated submission typescript of Catskill Innkeeper. Art Flick and the Westkill Tavern Club with ALS 2004<br/><br/>Box 21: from MRP flat files: Schwiebert Henvryville disk & bluelines; Biscotti Bibliography f&gs ephemera reviews signing at Holland & Holland; Garrison & Carmichael 1997 ed f&gs; Swanson production materials & photos; Spencer Churchill Tarpon Fishing f&gs loose in trial case binding slipcase<br/><br/>Box 22: MRP ephemera & production materials multiples of review flyers etc<br/><br/>Box 23: MRP production materials : Tosh Brown The Thing about Tarpon original typescript marked for corrections plus second draft typescript Oct. 2000 marginal notes in pencil final draft typescript titled Megalops 24 Oct. 2000 with pencil notes published 2001; Swanson Water Music 4 copies duplicated typescript marked plus setting copy; Swanson Water Music 3 sets page proofs marked; Cardenas Sea Level 2 sets marked typescripts with notes for copy-editing; Sea Level file copies of review in Gray's Sporting Journal; A Fishing Trip or: What They Didn't Teach Me about Fly-Fishing at Harvard Law School 2 bound duplicated typescripts 204 pp. & unpaginated shorter version; envelope with 2 ANS from James Prosek and a digital color print of Brook Trout painting with sheets of Marcus Hummon Catch and Release angling verse; correspondence/proof re: Spruce Brook Club; book proposal from John Cole Saltwater's Finest Angling 1996; R. Swanson Record Atlantic Salmon bound proofs.<br/><br/>Box 24: MRP production materials : Cardenas correspondence with WDT January 2002 on re: Sea Level bound duplicated typescript marked uncorrected proof copy edited setting typescript marked page proofs; Paul Ford typescripts of Beloved Waters 1998 and 1999 final with sample illustrations photos; Thanatopfish setting copy proofs production materials & discs; Biscotti Antonacci Genealogy laser printed typescript proof; Peter Corbin transparencies for Reiger slipcase art; Sloan Fly FIshing dummy case & untrimmed f&gs; dummy binding American Shad; Starlight Creek dummy binding & slipcase soiled.<br/><br/>Box 25: MRP Production materials : Megalops proofs dummy bindings trial case & slipcase reviews; Tosh Brown Megalops deluxe copy no. 1; Swanson Water Music deluxe ed. copy no. 2; 7 trial mounts for Henryville Special fly all signed by Schwiebert on the mount; dummy binding for McGuane Live Water; 2 copies Connett My Friend the Trout MRP reprint slipcases soiled; extra case Water Music<br/><br/>Box 26: R. Swanson Grand Cascapedia Giants setting proofs & production material; Corbett Davis The Deadly Reef duplicated typescript submission copy 1998 with note from John N. Cole; MRP receipts & files 2006; paper & binding samples press materials<br/><br/>Box 27: MRP promotional flyers & mailers 27A half dozen extra trial slipcases 3 boxes MRP slipcase labels 27B SIlver King 27C Summer's Salmon & 27D promotional materials<br/><br/>OVERSIZE<br/><br/>BOX A John Rice original watercolor illustration for Biscotti; John Rice original watercolor illustrations salt water fish December 1996 for West of Key West 1997; John Rice original watercolor illustration of bighorn sheep for Biscotti 1997; John Rice leaping tarpon grisaille watercolor; John Swan leaping Salmon pencil framed; Peter Corbin leaping Tarpon pencil '92 framed Silver King 1992; Peter Corbin two framed prints ea. no. 3/100 sgd. by the artist images used for slipcases of Bonefish and Silver King; Terri Amig framed watercolor sgd. by artist for deluxe ed. of Dimock; Poster for Starlight Creek Angling Society 10; Poster for Live Water John Swan 10; Poster for Summer's Salmon John Swan 10; Poster for Marquesa A.D. Tinkham 10; poster for Izaak Walton sgd by artist; Gene Hill hunting broadside with art by Gordie Allen inscr. to WDT; production materials for illus for Summer's Salmon; untrimmed dust jacket for Garrison; color separations for MRP brochures. unknown books
18933075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br /> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br /> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br /> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown
18933075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Big Game Hunting in India 1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br/> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br/> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br/> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown books
1653239106London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot 1653. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4 Q6-8 and R1-3 in facsimile a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge gilt spine with two red leather labels edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas" by James McDonald New York. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. First edition of a landmark of English literature.<br /> The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien; p. 245 with a notorious error is here in facsimile in the corrected state.<br /> The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain outside of permanent collections as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier English 31; Westwood and Satchell p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey 1749-1816 West Dean Sussex F.R.S. and M.P. 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved - Harry T. Pethers sale Sotheby's 5 December 1960 lot 135 £145 to Maggs - Bent Juel-Jensen acquired from Maggs February 1961 for £225 Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot unknown
1653239106London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot 1653. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4 Q5-8 and R1-3 in facsimile a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge gilt spine with two red leather labels edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas" by James McDonald New York. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. The First Walton. First edition of a landmark of English literature.<br/>The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien; p. 245 with a notorious error is here in facsimile in the corrected state.<br/>The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain outside of permanent collections as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier English 31; Westwood and Satchell p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey 1749-1816 West Dean Sussex F.R.S. and M.P. 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved - Harry T. Pethers sale Sotheby's 5 December 1960 lot 135 £145 to Maggs - Bent Juel-Jensen acquired from Maggs February 1961 for £225 Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot unknown books
1888100195Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition Number 58 of 105 copies. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. Folio. Full light blue crushed levant morocco the front and back boards inlaid with blue brown yellow green and black morocco to represent ospreys fishing for salmon in a panoramic river scene with wooded shores the front doublure of dark blue levant with a salmon caught by a fly inlaid in black green and white morocco the back doublure of dark blue morocco with two salmon swimming upstream inlaid in black green and white morocco flyleaves of white watered silk t.e.g. with original covers and coloured end-papers preserved by Riviere. Bookplate of Matthew C.D. Borden. Slightest toning of spine. First edition Number 58 of 105 copies. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. Folio. The Borden Copy Bound by Riviere. Superbly bound example of a book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river. Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols.1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known. "Borden 1842-1912 was fond of bindings and the library contained examples of all the better known contemporary craftsmen . in sumptuous modern style" Cannon. One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production in a striking custom binding by Riviere for a celebrated collector. Catalogue of the Printed Books Manuscripts Autograph Letters etc. Collected by Matthew C.D. Borden 1910 Volume II pp. 168-169; Borden sale 1913 lot 647 $220.00; Cannon American Book Collectors p. 225; Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S4; Hampton 2008 p. 245 David Douglas unknown books
1888238981Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover decorative endpapers. Some slight toning of spine occasional spotting throughout else fine. In custom green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Family Copy Inscribed to His Son. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br/><br/>Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols.1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br/><br/>A family copy of one of the pinnacles of nineteenth-century angling literature inscribed to the author's son:<br/><br/> "Henry M. Sage from D. Sage Nov 1896" Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 117; Heller 2:469; not in Lande. Provenance: Henry M. Sage with his bookplate David Douglas unknown books
1824246169London: Published by Thomas McLean 1824. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco the covers elaborately panelled in gilt the spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in the second compartment the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools gilt turn ins cream-glazed endpapers red morocco inner hinges gilt edges scuffed endpapers and blanks with silver-fish damage. Alken Henry. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work. It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" Tooley<br/><br/>The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding fox stag and otter hunting beagling racing falconry various types of dogs and horses shooting grouse partridge pheasant snipe wild-fowl bittern pigeon fishing for pike and salmon fishing from a punt prize-fighting cock-fighting badger bear and bull-baiting and perhaps most extraordinary of all: "owling." It is interesting to note that although both the artist and the author felt that it was necessary to record badger bear and bull baiting they did not hold back from condemning all three 'sports' as barbaric.  <br/>This copy is a later issue/impression. The additional pictorial title is dated 1821 rather than 1820 as in the first issue a letterpress title in French has been added only the English title is present in the first and second issues and the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 Podeschi records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are numbered. The watermarks suggest a date of 1824 or later. The plates very carefully hand-colored are all aquatints by I. Clark and retain all of the liveliness that is such a feature of this work.<br/>The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s . To many sporting art is 'Alken' and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary" Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75-76. Tooley 41; Schwerdt I p. 19; Podeschi 111; Litchfield 14; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 10-11 Published by Thomas McLean unknown books
1888260233Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover. Silk inner hinges professionally repaired. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. Bookplates of Jay Gould Lindhurst Irvington on Hudson; and Edward Hine Johnson. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br/><br/>Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols. 1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br/><br/>One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production with the notable provenance of financier Jay Gould. Sage who lived in Albany would have known Gould from equestrian circles as both men maintained stables of trotting horses and bred Morgan horses. Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S-4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 11; Heller 2:469; not in Lande David Douglas unknown books
1888260233Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover. Silk inner hinges professionally repaired. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. Bookplates of Jay Gould Lindhurst Irvington on Hudson; and Edward Hine Johnson. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br /> <br /> Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols. 1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br /> <br /> One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production with the notable provenance of financier Jay Gould. Sage who lived in Albany would have known Gould from equestrian circles as both men maintained stables of trotting horses and bred Morgan horses. Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S-4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 11; Heller 2:469; not in Lande David Douglas unknown
1706314397London: sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain Price 6 d. 1706. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece of an angler with fish on the line. iv 140 pp. 1 vols. 48mo. Later 18th-century red straight-grain morocco flat spine lettered in gilt gilt rules marbled endpapers gilt edges. Extremities a little worn a very good copy. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece of an angler with fish on the line. iv 140 pp. 1 vols. 48mo. A superb copy of this rare miniature angling work. "Exceedingly rare but not unique as stated in the sale catalogue of the Huth Library" Schwerdt. Although the work is undated ESTC and bibliographies usually date it to 1705 but on page 31 is a reference to "a Curious book lately printed The Angler's Sure Guide" published in 1706.<br /> <br /> First edition thus a compendium consisting of extracts from the section on angling in The Pleasures of Princes from Hungers Prevention on "low-belling" and other methods of bird-catching Country Contentments on hunting coursing dogs and Markhams Method poultry etc. The publisher was George Conyers one of the most prominent chapbook publishers of the period.<br /> This first edition is rare with no copy in the British Library. ESTC locates one copy only in the UK at the Bodleian and four in North America: Harvard Houghton Library; Princeton; Yale University Center for British Art; and Beinecke. The second edition of 1712 is almost equally rare.<br /> <br /> A manuscript note on the front free endpaper verso gives the ownership as E. A. Hunter 13 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk noting its gift to him by Coleman in 1874. The receipt Edmund Arthur Hunter 1866-1937 was eight years old at the time; his father was a wine merchant. The note claims that "This book originally belonged to Lord Byron's grandson by whom it was given to Rushbrook who gave it to Coleman." If this story is true the most likely candidate for first owner in this chain of provenance is Ralph Gordon King Noel Milbanke 2nd Earl of Lovelace 1839-1906. ESTC N14392. Westwood & Satchell p.146-7; Schwerdt II 13; Poynter 1.1. Huth sale 4 Jul. 1916 lot 4717 Schwerdt sale 2 Mar. 1946 lot 1739 Thompson sale 14 Oct. 1968 lot 115; Schiff sale 11 Dec. 1990 lot 216; Simpson sale 15 Feb. 2005 lot 404. For Lambert cf. N.Y.A.M.Bulletin 18:4 April 1942 pp. 293-296 sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain, Price 6 d. unknown
1876310359Washington 1876. First edition. 2 folding maps 7 line drawings and 7 tipped-in albumen photograph portraits with fine manuscript captions. 143 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original three quarter red morocco titled in gilt on upper cover "The/ Yellowstone/ and/ The Great Geysers/Strong/1875." Ownership signature of Rhoby McM Gillespie Chicago wife of the photographer on title. Spine neatly rebacked. First edition. 2 folding maps 7 line drawings and 7 tipped-in albumen photograph portraits with fine manuscript captions. 143 pp. 1 vols. 4to. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest descriptions of Yellowstone being the account of a hunting expedition to the north-western territories undertaken by the author and six officers plus a contingent of enlisted men including US Secretary of War Gen. Wm. W. Belknap and US Inspector General R. B. Marcy who fell ill and nearly perished on the trip as well as Gen. James W. Forsyth Lt. G. C. Doane Gen N. B. Sweitzer and Col. George L. Gillespie whose photographic portraits illustrate the book. The party traveled some 5000 miles by rail stage steamer and horseback in 53 days seeking elk deer buffalo and other game as well as wild fowl; due to the season of the year game was not as plentiful as hoped but the abundance of trout exceeded all expectations and almost 500 large ones were caught see pp. 54-57. Another impediment to hunting were the "hostile Sioux who were constantly lurking around in great numbers;" it was perhaps prophetic that on September 3 1875 they met and were entertained by General George Armstrong Custer of the 7th Cavalry at Fort Lincoln just nine months before the Battle of Little Big Horn. As befitting "one of the most famous sportsmen in the country" Custer and his wife and sister lived in great state on the post surrounded by the General's hunting trophies of which there were many. Circumstances prevented Strong from retaining the head or hide of the huge leader of a buffalo herd which he shot but the event is described in lively detail. Also noteworthy are the author's splendid descriptions of Yellowstone and the surrounding territory. Many accounts of Yellowstone and the Northwest were to follow but this one in its depiction of the country the sport and the individuals who participated in this early adventure is a gem and equally rare. <br/>A FASCINATING AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNT OF FRONTIER SPORT AND EXPLORATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST. RARE. Streeter 4101; Graff 4014; Phillips American Sporting Books p. 364; Litchfield p. 50; Heller 634; Howes S1083 "b"; Taylor traveling thru Wonderland pp. 48-49 unknown books
1948261135New York: privately printed at the Derrydale Press etc. 1948. Privately printed in editions of very limited quantities. 8 aquatint engravings hand colored and 1 color print. Image size 12-3/4 x 17-1/2 on larger sheet. Large oblong folio 23 x 36-1/2 inches. Half red morocco gilt red morocco label on upper cover printed title leaf each print window matted in heavy card mount by Aquarius. Fine. Privately printed in editions of very limited quantities. 8 aquatint engravings hand colored and 1 color print. Image size 12-3/4 x 17-1/2 on larger sheet. Large oblong folio 23 x 36-1/2 inches. William Woodward's Winners' Circle. Superb presentation of a distinguished group of thoroughbred portraits by Martin Stainforth T.P. Earl and Edwin Megargee comprising:<br/>1. Faireno. Bay Colt 1929 by Chatterton-Minerva; Winner of the Victoria Stakes Junior Champion Belmont Stakes Shevlin Dwyer Lawrence Realization Saratoga Hawthorne Empire City Merchant's & Citizens Rochambeau and Havre de Grace Handicaps. Champion 3 - year old of 1932. Winner of $185140 in stakes and purses. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To William G. Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>2. Brown Betty. by Friar Marcus-Garpal 1930; Winner of the 1000 Guineas 1933. Richemount Stakes Hurst Park 1933 The Rous Memorial & Cheverly Park Stakes Newmarket 1932 Nottingham Breeders' Foal Stakes Champion Breeders' Foal Plate Derby 1932 Total winnings 11637 Pounds Sterling. Ridden by Joe Childs. The Property of William Woodward Esquire. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort. Color print signed in the plate by the artist and pencil signed by the artist "T.P. Earl" lower right. Inscribed in pencil: "To Wm Goodby Loew from William Woodward" This print not noted by Ordeman.<br/><br/>3. Omaha. Chesnut Colt 1932 by Gallant Fox-Flambino; Winner of the Kentucky Derby Preakness Belmont Dwyer Classic and other races; Champion 3 - year-old of 1935. Winner of $146105 to the end of his 3 - year-old year. Jockey W. Saunders up. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To Florence B. Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>4. Granville. Bay Colt 1933 by Gallant Fox-Gravita; Winner of the Belmont Classic Kenner Travers Lawrence Realization Stakes The Saratoga Cup and other races; Champion Horse of 1936. Winner of $111820. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Ridden by J. Stout. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To W. Goodby Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>5. Johnstown. Bay Colt 1936 by Jamestown-La France; Winner of the Belmont Kentucky Derby Withers Dwyer Wood Memorial Paumonok Breeders Futurity and seven other races and $169315. Owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To W. Goodly Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>6. Marguerite . Property of William Woodward Esquire" a fine portrait of the "premier producing mare of the world". Hand colored aquatint signed in pencil "Edwin Megargee" at lower right. Provenance: from the collection of Eugene V. Connett 3rd with a greeting card "Merry Christmas William Woodward"<br/><br/>7. Fenelon. Bay Horse 1937 by Sir Galahad III-Filante; Winner of Travers Stakes Lawrence Realization Jockey Club Gold Cup Whitney Stakes Brooklyn Empire City New York Merchant's & Citizens Manhattan Endurance Handicaps and other races and $152545. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. <br/><br/>8. Apache. Bay Colt 1939 by Alcazar-Flying Song; Winner of 22 races and $169515 including the Toboggan Paumonck Carter Wilson Fleetwing Bay Shore Edgemere Yonkers Empire City and Remsen Handicaps and Stakes establishing five track records from five and one half furlongs to one mile and three sixteenths. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. James Stout up. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. <br/><br/> 9. Black Tarquin at 3. Bay Colt 1945 by Rhodes Scholar-Vagrancy; Winner of the St. Leger Stakes 1948 and of the Gimcrack Royal Lodge Derby Trial St James Palace Chippenham Burwell and White Rose Stakes; and of 32192 Pounds Sterling Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Edgar Britt up. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate Stainforth. <br/><br/>A choice group of the sporting prints commissioned by William Woodward owner of the Belair Stables.<br/>"Brown Betty" by T.P. Earl 1874-1947 is previously unrecorded and never seen by Ordeman whose 2005 book collected prior knowledge on the prints. One other print by British artist T.P. Earl Flares is noted by Ordeman date unknown but in personal communication he reports that his information comes at second hand. and has never seen "Brown Betty". The print is however in the collection of the Belair Mansion Museum established after Woodward's death at his Maryland residence. Brown Betty won the 1933 1000 Guineas race and the painting by T.P. Earl that Woodward commissioned is dated 1933 in the plate. The paper and production of this color print differ from the aquatint horse portraits commissioned from Connett and Frank Lowe. Given the date of the portrait we conjecture that Woodward commissioned the print in London and thus it may predate and be the point of origin for the series of prints commissioned from Connett. In recent conversation Ordeman advanced a similar hypothesis.<br/>The Megargee print "Marguerite" with her colt Gallant Fox is from the collection of Derrydale Press publisher Eugene V. Connett 3rd.<br/>Rare and important. Ordeman 2005 pp. 96-98; Mitchell British Equestrian Artists: "Stainforth's detail and accuracy in likeness were very fine and very natural. He avoided the pitfalls of flatness and photographic stiffness so often found in this type of work." Provenance: descendant of the Loew family see note at "Marguerite" privately printed at the Derrydale Press, etc. unknown books
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br /> The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br /> The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br /> Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. UNRECORDED. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed hunting diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br/>The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br/>The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br/>Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown books
1889258645Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1889. First edition. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. 1 vols. Folio 21-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches. Period style red straight-grained morocco spine gilt with raised bands in seven compartments titled in gilt brown endpapers. First edition. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. 1 vols. Folio 21-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches. Rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color a rare A.B. Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S. Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day. <br/><br/>The plates with titles taken from the preceding text leaf are as follows: <br/>1. Killing the Salmon. Henry Sandham. <br/>2. A Moose hunt. Henry Sandham. <br/>3. Trout fishing. Henry Sandham. <br/>4. Fly-fishing for Black Bass. S.F. Denton. <br/>5. Hunting Antelope i.e. Prong-horn. Frederic Remington.<br/>6. Catching a Tarpon. Fred. S. Cozzens. <br/>7. Mallard shooting. S.F. Denton. <br/>8. Catching a Mascalonge. Frank H.Taylor. <br/>9. A Wild Turkey hunt. R.J. Zogbaum. <br/>10. Sailing for Bluefish. Fred S. Cozzens. <br/>11. Hunting the Virginia Deer. A.B. Frost. <br/>12. A day with the Prairie Chickens. R.F. Zogbaum. <br/>13. A hunt above the timber-line Big-horn. Edward Knobel. <br/>14. Canada Goose shooting. Frederic Remington. <br/>15. Stalking the Wapiti. Henry Sandham.<br/><br/>The two plates by Frederic Remington 'Hunting Antelope' Hassrick & Webster 434 and 'Goose Shooting' Hassrick & Webster 435 are also listed by Peggy and Harold Samuels Remington The Complete Prints New York 1990 pp.152-3 with the comment that they are the first and second Remington prints to appear in color. They were preceded only by a series of four monochrome photogravures for John Muir's Picturesque California 1888 and two other individual prints both black and white. <br/><br/>Arthur Burdett Frost is now perhaps best known for his sporting pictures and prints but his lack of interest in deer-hunting meant that he rarely pictured shooting scenes that featured anything other than small game. His image 'Hunting the Deer' is recorded and illustrated in Henry M. Reed's The A.B. Frost Book Charleston 1993 pp.101 104-5 but the author was apparently unaware that it was issued as part of the present work which is not included in the extensive appendix of books illustrated by Frost. The present work includes six angling plates three of fly-fishing four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. <br/><br/>Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface the plates are all from water-colours especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen who judged them for technical accuracy. Phillips p. 141; Wetzel p. 146; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 238; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; not in Reese Stamped with a National Character Bradlee Whidden unknown books
19102660811910. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. In gilt silver frame. Inscribed verso "Mr. Strawbridge. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. A comical scene of five fishermen on the bank with their poles in hand looking miserable. unknown books
19102660811910. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. In gilt silver frame. Inscribed verso "Mr. Strawbridge. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. A comical scene of five fishermen on the bank with their poles in hand looking miserable. unknown
1822267937London: Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1822. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. Uniformly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere spines gilt with red and green morocco labels all edges gilt. Very occasional foxing to plates. A fine set. Alken Henry. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting shooting and the turf but its reach extends to such less fashionable pursuits as swimming and gymnastics; the angler will find much of interest here. A superb prime set of this important sporting journal complete in 13 volumes WITH THE RARE JUNE 1828 NUMBER the last issued of which only a small number were published the January to June title page for 1828 half titles where called for and the errata page in Vol. 2. PLUS The Turf Herald and Turf Guides for 1824-1827. A fresh clean set beautifully bound. <br /> A CORNERSTONE OF ANY SPORTING LIBRARY. Schwerdt I pp. 32-5; Tooley 64; Podeschi A12; Cohn 32; Slater p. 9 Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown
1822267937London: Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1822. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. Uniformly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere spines gilt with red and green morocco labels all edges gilt. Very occasional foxing to plates. A fine set. Alken Henry. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting shooting and the turf but its reach extends to such less fashionable pursuits as swimming and gymnastics; the angler will find much of interest here. A superb prime set of this important sporting journal complete in 13 volumes WITH THE RARE JUNE 1828 NUMBER the last issued of which only a small number were published the January to June title page for 1828 half titles where called for and the errata page in Vol. 2. PLUS The Turf Herald and Turf Guides for 1824-1827. A fresh clean set beautifully bound. <br/>A CORNERSTONE OF ANY SPORTING LIBRARY. Schwerdt I pp. 32-5; Tooley 64; Podeschi A12; Cohn 32; Slater p. 9 Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown books
1872313448Cambridge: Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press 1872. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern brown morocco over bevelled boards in period style a.e.g. preserving presentation label from the author. Blind stamp to title page withdrawal stamp at foot of presentation. Very good plus. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Streeter's copy had a list of the 212 recipients and a note that "Tucker had been given the 'Ordre de St. Stanislaus de 2d Classe'. <br /> Pages 152-178 contain a description of the 'great buffalo hunt' the Grand Duke was treated to with Buffalo Bill as his guide and General Custer General Phil Sheridan and Sioux Chief Spotted Tail as his hosts."<br /> <br /> With a loosely inserted printed bifolium announcement for a social event for the Grand Duke in Boston 1871. Heller 1:394; Streeter 4098; Howes A-126 "aa"; Graff 35 Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press unknown
1931261099New York: The Derrydale Press 1931. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that "it is rare that one finds a complete set today. 1 vols. Image size of the prints is approximately 10 x 8 inches the plate measuring 13 x 9-1/2 inches with additional margins. Each plate is archivally matted; the paintings measure 12 x 9-12 inches and are docketed and captioned in pencil in the lower margins. The watercolors are handsomely and uniformly matted in fine French mats; the proofs in a more simple uniform matting; a few of the watercolors show faint foxing but both sets are clean bright and highly attractive. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that "it is rare that one finds a complete set today". 1 vols. Image size of the prints is approximately 10 x 8 inches the plate measuring 13 x 9-1/2 inches with additional margins. Each plate is archivally matted; the paintings measure 12 x 9-12 inches and are docketed and captioned in pencil in the lower margins. Boyer's Originals. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits each set in an appropriate background are of: SAMUEL MORRIS ESQ. Foxhunter first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club America's oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON "Napoleon of the Turf"; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS Yachtsman owner of the "America" and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS ESQ. Angler author of The American Angler's Book who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT ESQ. "Frank Forester" the father of American sporting literature. Boyer's watercolors done in larger size were reduced to edition dimensions of approximately 10 x 8 inches. The proof prints before letters have been reworked by Boyer who has signed each one and show a depth and richness of modelling that the published edition for all its beauty does not. This set was one of the finest productions of The Derrydale Press Sporting Print Series. We believe the set of proofs to be unique and the original paintings are of course unquestionably so. Both have survived in prime condition to delight the collector and historian of the American sporting scene. <br/>A UNIQUE TREASURE OF AMERICAN SPORTING ART. Ordeman The Aquatints Drypoints and Etchings of The Derrydale Press p. 24-5 et seq The Derrydale Press unknown books
1931261099New York: The Derrydale Press 1931. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that "it is rare that one finds a complete set today. 1 vols. Image size of the prints is approximately 10 x 8 inches the plate measuring 13 x 9-1/2 inches with additional margins. Each plate is archivally matted; the paintings measure 12 x 9-12 inches and are docketed and captioned in pencil in the lower margins. The watercolors are handsomely and uniformly matted in fine French mats; the proofs in a more simple uniform matting; a few of the watercolors show faint foxing but both sets are clean bright and highly attractive. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that "it is rare that one finds a complete set today". 1 vols. Image size of the prints is approximately 10 x 8 inches the plate measuring 13 x 9-1/2 inches with additional margins. Each plate is archivally matted; the paintings measure 12 x 9-12 inches and are docketed and captioned in pencil in the lower margins. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits each set in an appropriate background are of: SAMUEL MORRIS ESQ. Foxhunter first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club America's oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON "Napoleon of the Turf"; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS Yachtsman owner of the "America" and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS ESQ. Angler author of The American Angler's Book who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT ESQ. "Frank Forester" the father of American sporting literature. Boyer's watercolors done in larger size were reduced to edition dimensions of approximately 10 x 8 inches. The proof prints before letters have been reworked by Boyer who has signed each one and show a depth and richness of modelling that the published edition for all its beauty does not. This set was one of the finest productions of The Derrydale Press Sporting Print Series. We believe the set of proofs to be unique and the original paintings are of course unquestionably so. Both have survived in prime condition to delight the collector and historian of the American sporting scene. <br /> A UNIQUE TREASURE OF AMERICAN SPORTING ART. Ordeman The Aquatints Drypoints and Etchings of The Derrydale Press p. 24-5 et seq The Derrydale Press unknown
1929314035Pleasantville New York: Privately Printed 1929. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original brown printed wrappers sewn. Fine short split at bottom of spine fold. Green half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. 'It's Better Just a Little Farther on'. Bradley was Secretary-Treasurer of the Beaverkill Trout Club from 1910-1929; the club had 43 members at the time of his writing. A brief but detailed section of reminiscences is followed by early photographs of sport along the Beaverkill before World War I including author Geo. M. L. La Branche in mid-cast. Each photograph is titled in a fine hand which Bruns speculates is that of "Lady B." pictured on p. 19. There are also photographs of trout fishing in Maine and other points in New York State and of the author and his friend Charlie Campbell president of the club 1910-1923 fishing for Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland. Campbell was the friend who first brought Bradley to the Voorhees homestead in 1908 and with Bradley formed the Beaverkill Trout Club. Campbell's motto was "It's better just a little farther on". These recollections were evidently composed in 1927 for a speech to fellow members to judge from the text and expanded for publication here.<br/><br/>"A very rare work numbering about 25 copies" Heller. The Litchfield copy sold at auction in November 2001 brought $14400.<br/><br/>RARE AND BEAUTIFUL AND EVOCATIVE OF SPORT ON A LEGENDARY AMERICAN RIVER. Litchfield 85; Bruns B202; Heller 1:730; H.A. Darbee sale 1987 23A Privately Printed unknown books
1929314035Pleasantville New York: Privately Printed 1929. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original brown printed wrappers sewn. Fine short split at bottom of spine fold. Green half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bradley was Secretary-Treasurer of the Beaverkill Trout Club from 1910-1929; the club had 43 members at the time of his writing. A brief but detailed section of reminiscences is followed by early photographs of sport along the Beaverkill before World War I including author Geo. M. L. La Branche in mid-cast. Each photograph is titled in a fine hand which Bruns speculates is that of "Lady B." pictured on p. 19. There are also photographs of trout fishing in Maine and other points in New York State and of the author and his friend Charlie Campbell president of the club 1910-1923 fishing for Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland. Campbell was the friend who first brought Bradley to the Voorhees homestead in 1908 and with Bradley formed the Beaverkill Trout Club. Campbell's motto was "It's better just a little farther on". These recollections were evidently composed in 1927 for a speech to fellow members to judge from the text and expanded for publication here.<br /> <br /> "A very rare work numbering about 25 copies" Heller. The Litchfield copy sold at auction in November 2001 brought $14400.<br /> <br /> RARE AND BEAUTIFUL AND EVOCATIVE OF SPORT ON A LEGENDARY AMERICAN RIVER. Litchfield 85; Bruns B202; Heller 1:730; H.A. Darbee sale 1987 23A Privately Printed unknown
