Author: SIR HERBERT MAXWELL [EDITOR].
Title: Fishing at Home and Abroad.
Description: London. The London & Counties Press Association, Limited. 1913. Limited Edition. Book number 689 of 750 copies published. Folio (12 ½ x 10 inches). [vi], xii, 1-413 pp. including index. Frontispiece portrait of King George V. with printed tissue overlay. Title page printed in red and black. Seven colored plates, including a colored scene of "Salmon Fishing in June" from an original by Ernest E. Briggs, two color plates of full-dress feather-wing Atlantic flies, and color plates of fish. Five monochrome plates with descriptive tissues. Five photogravure plates with descriptive tissues. Fifty half-tone plates. Contributions from leading English fishing writers of the day, including Sir Herbert Maxwell, E. T. D. Chambers, R. B. Marston, F. G. Aflalo, and others, and most importantly from the American point of view, Theodore Gordon (1864-1915). Mr. Gordon's contribution "American Trout Fishing" was his only published writing to appear in a book. The book is bound in the publisher's full brown morocco with gilt titles and gilt rules on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. The spine has been professionally rebacked, with the original spine laid down, minor edge wear. A nice book. Very good.

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