Smith, Jerome V. C | Reprint of the limited release of earliest American literature on angling

Property from the Library of John M. Schiff

Smith, Jerome V. C

Trout and Angling. Being Part Two of the Fishes of Massachusetts. New York: Derrydale Press, 1929

8vo (250 x 160 mm). Hand-colored title vignette, two plates with tissue guards; some minor browning. Half green morocco over paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with repeat gilt dry fly device; extremities rubbed.

First edition, one of 50 large paper copies out of a total edition of 325, containing two charming hand-colored plates. Originally published in 1833 and reprinted in 1929. 

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Spiegel 31