A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Etc., as Practiced on the Dove, and on the Principal Streams of the Midland Counties; Applicable to Every Trout and Grayling River in the Empire
- Hardcover
- London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1838
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo [19.5 cm] Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 (no text is obscured). Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 (again, text not affected). Stitching visible in inside margins, however binding very sturdy.
Ex-libris James Cowan Smith, with his bookplate (depicting his beloved dog Callum) on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith (1843-1919) was a British civil engineer, director of a railway company (British Wagon), and philanthropist. In his will, he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4,284,000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed, the Dandie Dinmont.
Ex-libris James Cowan Smith, with his bookplate (depicting his beloved dog Callum) on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith (1843-1919) was a British civil engineer, director of a railway company (British Wagon), and philanthropist. In his will, he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4,284,000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed, the Dandie Dinmont.