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Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed
by William Scrope
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$295.69NZ$266.12
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About This Item
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Vellum. Very Good. 8.5" by 6" . L Haghe; T Landseer; S Williams; et al. Trade edition of William Scrope's illustrated book on salmon fishing. Originally published in 1843. William Scrope's detailed account of the natural history and habits of the salmon as well as salmon fishing, with techniques and methods for fishers and sportsmen, anecdotes, and more. Illustrated with lithographs and wood engravings by L Haghe, T Landseer, and S Williams after paintings from Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, and more. Collated, complete with coloured frontispiece and twelve lithographic plates (three in colour), as well as wood engravings in text. William Scrope was an English sportsman and amateur artist. In the original publisher's half paper vellum binding over marbled boards, plain endpapers, titles in gilt to morocco spine label. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Tape marks to endpapers. Tape repair to verso front free endpaper. Previous ownership inscriptions to recto front blank leaves, RB Webster's library stamp to same leaf, half title, and recto rear front free endpaper, no further stamps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 861A29
- Title
- Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed
- Author
- William Scrope
- Illustrator
- L Haghe; T Landseer; S Williams; et al
- Format/Binding
- Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 8.5" by 6"
- Keywords
- william scrope salmon fishing illustrated salmon fishing
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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