Fishing From the Earliest Times

London: John Murray, 1926. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. xxi, 494 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with embossed gilt illustration. Gilt stamped title on spine. Untrimmed foredge. Light shelf wear to the cloth binding. Light toning to the front end sheets and title page. A couple of stains from two paper clips on the right front flyleaf. Previous owner book plate of Madison Grant on the front paste down. Laid inside the book (once gem clipped to the right front flyleaf) are 2 portions of a typed and hand written manuscript addressed to Madison Grant dated April 30, 1931. There is also a small saved brown piece of paper with the stamp "From Copely Amory 1811 Que Street Washington, D.C." The letter is incomplete with the two sections apparently saved from a longer letter. The paper contains red pen marks signed by the author and some other notes written in brown pen - possibly the same hand but unknown. Taken from wikipedia - "Madison Grant was an American lawyer known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a eugenicist, Grant was responsible for one of the most famous works of scientific racism, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. As a conservationist, Grant was credited with the saving of many different species of animals, founding many different environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management.