Search Results: days and nights of salmon fishing by william scrope esq

London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1885. Bound in original green cloth on boards. Cover: faint dusting of a little soiling. Spine: gilt titles, head & foot with thin bumping, rubbing and splits. Light wear to fore corners tips. Age browning and soiling to edges. Fep: name 1943. Publishers adverts, frontis, title page vignetts plates and illustrations. Clean content. Binding is VG. Foot rep sticker of Professor, R.M. Gordon, M.D, etc. 317p. Third Edition. Hb. VG/None. Illus. by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cook.

London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1843. First Edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 x 7). xvii, [xviii-xx], [1], 2- 298 pp. including appendix. Extra engraved title page and printed title page. Color tinted frontispiece titled "Burning the Water." Thirteen plates in total. Ten color tinted lithograph plates. Three hand-colored plates - one showing six beautifully crafted salmon flies and two of salmon. Wood engravings by L. Haghe, T. Landseer and S. Williams from paintings by Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Landseer. Text illustrations. Eleven chapters in which Mr. Scrope delights his readers with poignant, beguiling prose. The book is elegantly bound in full tan calf with raised hubs, gilt rules and titles within six compartments on the spine, intertwined with gilt decorations. Inside gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. It’s simply sophisticated. The book and its contents in fine condition. . First Edition..