Salmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick
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- SIGNED With 7 etched plates by Sturges, each with lettered tissue guards, numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lowe
- [Chicago: Privately Printed [by Ralph Fletcher Seymour], 1919
[Chicago: Privately Printed [by Ralph Fletcher Seymour], 1919. One of 50 copies printed on handmade paper. With 7 etched plates by Sturges, each with lettered tissue guards, numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lower right in pencil. Unpaginated, [40] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gray boards, upper board titled in gilt and stamped in blind. Spine professionally restored at head, preserving original backstrip. Some minor toning to text leaves. Bookplate. Custom half blue morocco slipcase and blue cloth chemise. Nearfne. Sturges, Lee. One of 50 copies printed on handmade paper. With 7 etched plates by Sturges, each with lettered tissue guards, numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lower right in pencil. Unpaginated, [40] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautifullly produced volume, the account of a weeklong canoe trip fishing for salmon with guide Harry Allen, privately printed for Lee Sturges (1865-1954), a well known Chicago artist and industrialist. The book was designed and printed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, notable in the Chicago Arts and Crafts movement.
Bruns recounts a story told by the author’s son, that his father’s house burned down and with it most of the edition. Bruns suggests that “four or five copies” survived; the actual number to have survived is perhaps a dozen copies.
Unquestionably rare. Wetzel p. 220; Bruns S328; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 122; OCLC: 12357211 (Newberry, UNH)
Bruns recounts a story told by the author’s son, that his father’s house burned down and with it most of the edition. Bruns suggests that “four or five copies” survived; the actual number to have survived is perhaps a dozen copies.
Unquestionably rare. Wetzel p. 220; Bruns S328; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 122; OCLC: 12357211 (Newberry, UNH)