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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with B&W engravigs from original pen drawings by George W. Potter of Lake Worth, Florida (illustrateur). 1st Edition. No dates later than 1884; the first edition. Originally published as columns in the periodicals "Forest and Stream" and "The American Field." We'll grade this copy of "Camping and Cruising in Florida" "very good," while noting that a long-ago owner decided to coat the gray cloth-covered exterior of the boards with some kind of glossy preservative, most likely shellac, and that the job was a bit haphazard, with a bit of the excess forming drips (now long dried) along the top of the floral front pastedown. The author has inscribed this copy to the blank recto of the frontispiece illustration in an elegant period hand, but has NOT signed. Specifically, Henshall, author of somewhat more famous (and common) "Book of the Black Bass," has here inscribed to "R.B. Marston Esq -- / with kind regards of the author" and, below that, dated "Cynthiana, Ky -- June 25th 1884." As editor of London's "Fishing Gazette" from 1878 through 1927, Robert Bright Marston (1853-1927) "published the insights, experiences and expertise of the leading anglers of the day, chronicling such developments as the rise of the dry fly in Great Britain and the United States," sayeth the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum, dubbing Marston "one of the most important scholars in the world of fly-fishing, and certainly the most authoritative on the literature connected with Izaak Walton and 'The Compleat Angler.'" Previous owner R.B. was the son of Edward Marston, partner in the publishing firm of Samson Low, Marston & Co., which published some of the best-known books of the age, including "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and Henry Stanley's "How I Found Livingstone." In 1878, while working at his father's firm, Marston purchased "The Fishing Gazette," which under his editorship "gained renown and became known internationally, allowing a great interchange of fishing and allied interests." In 1884, Marston founded London's Flyfisher's Club, and was also involved that year in one of the earliest efforts to introduce the brown trout to American waters, making a gift of 10,000 eggs of Salmo trutta to the newly opened Cold Spring Harbor Hatchery in New York. As for our author, Ken Duke at Bassmaster-dot-com reports Civil War surgeon Dr. James Henshall's statement "I consider him, inch for inch and pound for pound, the gamest fish that swims" comprises "the seminal statement about the black bass and the most quoted line in all of bass fishing literature. Dr. James Alexander Henshall wrote it about the black bass family in his groundbreaking work on the subject, 'Book of the Black Bass,' published in 1881. His was the first book on the subject and its equal has not been seen since. 'Book of the Black Bass' is everything about the black bass just as Herman Melville's Moby Dick is all you want to know about whales," Mr. Duke continues. " It would be decades before anyone had anything substantial to add to Henshall's primer." As for the current title, here are a series of intriguing travelogues through a relatively undeveloped Florida of the 1880s, from the St. John River to the turtles and oysters of the Indian River Inlet; beach-combing St. Lucie Sound; Lake Worth, Boca Ratone (sic), Fort Myers and Sanibel Island, The Everglades, a village of the Seminole ("his dress and manners") and the far-flung Florida Keys. A presumably unique inscribed copy; xvi preliminaries followed by 248 pp. including the "List of Fishes" and "List of Birds" appendices, then followed by 12 pp. publisher's ads. Reduced from $800. Inscribed by Author(s).