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1920224039Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original green textured cloth titled stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges. Bookplate of O.M. Reed "Omar" with his ownership signature dated August 1934 and annotations. Reed's draft of an essay and correspondence with A.E. Hobbs loosely inserted. Old cellotape mark along front pastedown where letter was tipped in. Fine. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and the page format.<br/>Reed and his correspondent A.E. Hobbs discuss the book's author and identify most of the places alluded to in Chapman's narrative which includes a portrait of the author holding a 20-pound fish taken from the Thames.<br/>An uncommon work produced in just a few copies with an illuminating correspondence concerning this curious and interesting book. Not in Hampton's Angling Bibliography 1881-1949. Not in BL or OCLC privately printed unknown books
1830314070Philadelphia: Judah Dobson 1830. First edition first issue without the Morris portrait and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Two lithographic views lithographic portraits of Robert Wharton and Jonas Cattell. viii 127 1 8; ii 56 1 errata pp. 8vo 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges gilt pp. 44/45 have been professionally repaired and strengthened with Japanese tissue scattered foxing throughout. First edition first issue without the Morris portrait and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Two lithographic views lithographic portraits of Robert Wharton and Jonas Cattell. viii 127 1 8; ii 56 1 errata pp. 8vo 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. WITH MANUSCRIPT. With manuscript receipt for member assessment of $150 for the new club headquarters mounted to old endleaf. Leaf with mounted receipt and Manuscript receipt reads: "Rec'd May 22nd 1844 of Geo. R. Justice Esq/One Hundred and fifty dollars in full for/assessment of March Meeting for purchase/of Territory by Schuylkill Fishing Co/$150 Wm V. Anderson".<br/><br/>In 1732 27 Quakers founded "the Colony in Schuylkill fishing club" acquiring land and fishing rights along the west bank of the river about a mile north of present-day Fairmount which was part of William Penn's treaty with the Lenni-Lenape Indians. Over the years the clubhouse known as "the Castle" has moved several times in response to damming pollution and the arrival of the railroad in 1887. Since 1944 it has been on the adjoining edge of Nicholas Biddle's Andalusia estate.<br/>In 1843 the Schuylkill Fishing Company purchased a plot of land known as "Millmont" where they held their June 1843 meeting despite the Castle's unreadiness. At the March 1844 meeting the Committee in charge of arrangements pertaining to the new property made a report which was then adopted by the members that all members would be assessed $150 due on the first day of May with a ten day grace period or in three installments of $50 for the next three years due each first of May. See A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1732-1888 pp. 154-158. 1844 was also the year that the club officially incorporated under the name "Schuylkill Fishing Company" with William V. Anderson as one of the Trustees.<br/>George R. Justice 1803-1964 was a "citizen" member of the club from 1843 until 1863 holding various offices over the twenty years of his membership. William V. Anderson 1797-1869 was the Seventh Governor of the club serving from 1849-1854 having joined the club in 1824 and holding other offices before assuming the Governorship. He is listed in this volume as "Coroner." "Schuylkill is the most ancient fishing club that exists and its founders are said to have passed a treaty with the chiefs of the Leni-Lenape or Delaware Indians who granted them the privilege to hunt the woods and fish the waters of the Schuylkill" Westwood & Satchell. Additionally this edition is quite rare: "Almost priceless today never offered except in later editions.the entire Schuylkill story is highly important in American angling history" Bruns. American Imprints 2578 2579; Bruns M74; Howes M-636; Phillips 265; Sabin 49133; Westwood & Satchell p. 190 Judah Dobson unknown books
1922246406New York: Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends by H.S. Nichols 17 E. 33rd St 1922. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark green cloth covers with gilt borders upper board with gilt vignette of schooner lower board with vignette of swordfish t.e.g. Very slightly rubbing to spine ends otherwise a fine copy. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 50 Copies. Rare and privately printed account of fishing for swordfish off Montauk Point and the adjacent waters of Block Island. McAleenan was also the author of several sporting memoirs issued in very limited numbers. He has a flair for writing and writes lovingly of this three-week adventure harpooning swordfish battling sharks sighting whales etc.: ".glad days cheery companions and the joy of living.for those who have heard the wind in strange places." Foreword.<br/><br/><br/><br/>This copy is signed by the author and is additionally inscribed by him with a paragraph beginning "Dear George to you friend of my heart I send this diary of a cruise on as sweet a schooner as ever sailed ." and signed "Joe". Bruns M-91 omitting title and full description; Litchfield p. 79 Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends [by H.S. Nichols, 17 E. 33rd St] unknown books
