Fishing Vignettes, being Extracts from a Diary and other Fragments 1875-1922.
EDITION DE LUXE ON HAND-MADE PAPER, AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY
London: Home Words Ltd., [1923]. Large 8vo. 240pp. Numerous plates of photographs taken by the author. Original half calf with marbled boards [Bound by Best & Co.]. Top edge gilt, else uncut.
INSCRIBED by the author to front paste down and SIGNED under his portrait.
Very light rubbing to extremities, else an attractive copy.
The content is the same as the trade edition from the same year, but this de luxe edition is estimated to be printed in a low number and is printed on hand made paper. We have registered identical copies bound by Best & Co.
Schiötz 122 (only mentioning the de luxe edition). Schiötz mentions that the errors on the errate slip in the trade edition is corrected in this de luxe edition.
Discussion covers, among others, fishing on the Killaloe in Ireland, the Deveron, the Barr, the Dee and the Grimersta in Scotland, a month on the Suldal (or Sand) in Norway etc.