FLY-LEAVES FROM A FISHERMAN'S DIARY (with an antiquarian fishing-themed illustrated bookplate)

Captain G. E. Sharp

Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1910

About this Item

First impression of the true first edition. Attractive, contemporaneous steel engraved 'fishing theme' black and white bookplate 'A. Todd' (with printed name of the illustrator 'I. M. Bull') to front free endpaper, showing French doors open to a garden and river-bank with fishing lines, flies and nets as a decorative border to the bookplate. Illustrated with four sepia photogravure tissue-guarded plates: frontispiece showing: 'The First Cast', 'A Favoured Spot' facing page 56; 'The Topmost Shallow' facing page 92; 'On The Way to the River' facing page 156. All four plates present and clean with their original tissue-guards intact. ***Very good in orange-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and gilt borders to spine and gilt titles, gilt illustration and blind borders to front board. Gilt to front board very bright. Top edge of text-block gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edges of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut, as called for). Spine faded. Rear and front boards bright. Sporadic foxing to fore-edge of text-block and very slightly to prelims, with occasional very light sporadic fox-spot to pages. Most interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***194 mm x134 mm. viii prelim-pages plus 175 pages plus eight page publisher's advertisements to rear. ***Contents: Chap. I. A little about myself, and some other things; II. A Day in February; III. A Day in April, and Some Generalities; IV. Another Day in April, and the Philosophy of Failure; V. Two Days in Contrast; VI. A Day in June; VII. A Day in July, and Some Smoke Wreaths; VIII. Miscellanies; IX. A Day in September, and the Tale of a Scale; X. A Day in October, and Some Thoughts on Flies. ***First impression of the true first edition in its original cloth-covered boards, with an attractive collectable antiquarian ex-libris bookplate by I. M. Bull to the fore. ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian first edition titles on angling, fishing and angling enthusiasts, and collectors of fishing themed antiquarian bookplates. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 4801

Bibliographic Details

Title: FLY-LEAVES FROM A FISHERMAN'S DIARY (with an...

Publisher: Edward Arnold, London

Publication Date: 1910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition