An Angler's Anthology. Collected by A. B. Austin and with drypoint illustrations by Norman Wilkinson. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
1930ARC92936Country Life Ltd. London 1930. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by both the editor and illustrator this being #24. 4to. xix 168pp. White buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with an ornate gilt-stamped border. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and twenty-three delightful plates each with tissue guards present this deluxe issue included an additional signed etching but alas that is not present here. A penny-sized area of light staining to the backstrip and just a touch of marking to the cloth at the rear board. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper called for but lacking the original solander box and of course the additional etching. A handsome anthology of angling extracts featuring works by William Barnes Edmund Blunden George Borrow Rupert Brooke Robert Browning John Buchan W.H.Davies Walter de la Mare George Eliot Sir J.W.Fortescue Thomas Hardy W.H.Hudson Richard Jefferies James Joyce Charles Kingsley Andrew Lang Robert Nichols Francis Thompson Henry David Thoreau Izaak Walton and many others. Country Life Ltd., London Hardcover
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