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Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed. Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. [?Third Edition]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., ?Third Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, 11 lithographed plates (one depicting flies; all original tissue guards present) and 10 woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece and illustrated title mildly foxed; original ribbed green cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down, 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and single-leaf prospectus for the enlarged edition of Lloyd's Field Sports tipped in. The illustrations are by Haghe, Landseer and Williams from paintings by Wilkie, Landseer, Simson and Cooke. 'Next to Walton himself, there's no more engagingly discursive and allusive writer in the language. For the feel of fishing, the sense of it, I almost said the taste of it, I know of no other to place him beside' (Gingrich). A lovely copy of the best reissue; Scrope's classic treatise was first published in 1843. James was owner of Hurstmonceux Place in Sussex. Gingrich p.117 et seq.; Sage, 183; Westwood & Satchell p.191.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB179,70 €
