Fishing at Home & Abroad
- Publisher : London & Counties Press Assoc
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis, 7 col + 53 b/w plates
Description:
Limited edition of 750 numbered copies. Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845 – 1937) was a Scottish novelist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician. In this work he explains ‘that heretofore no attempt has been made on a similar scale to provide in a single work information about fishing in all parts of the world’. Includes contributions from the leading fishing writers of the period including; Sir Herbert Maxwell, Nigel Bourke, C.F. Lucas, E. T. D. Chambers, R. B. Marston, H.S. Thomas, F. G. Aflalo, and Theodore Gordon (1864-1915).
Condition
Large 4to, orig. full morocco, gilt, teg, other edges uncut. Vg ex-lib. copy. From an institutional library with ink stamps to endpapers and verso of plates. Some insect damage to inner margins of endpapers only. Minor marginal foxing to a few plates. No. 627/750