Author: SIR HERBERT MAXWELL [EDITOR].
Title: Fishing at Home and Abroad. {Limited Edition}.
Description: London. The London & Counties Press Association, Limited. 1913. Limited Edition. Book number 212 of 750 copies published (with the Subscribers Name "Ernest Chaplin, Esq." penned under the limitation number. He’s also listed in the book’s printed credits, a list of folks who assisted in the book’s publication). 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 fishing writers of the day (mostly Brits), including Sir Herbert Maxwell, E. T. D. Chambers, R. B. Marston, F. G. Aflalo, plus others, and importantly from the American perspective, Theodore Gordon (1864-1915). Mr. Gordon's contribution "American Trout Fishing" was his only published writing to appear in a book in his lifetime. 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. Light edge wear to the binding and a bit of occasional foxing to the preliminaries. A nice book. Very good.

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