notes reminiscences life angler william de henderson (4 résultats)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1876). 1876 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 203mm). Ppxiv,324. Engraved plates. Red-brown blind-ruled cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some pages opened roughly. Lacks frontispiece o/w good-plus. A classic Victorian memoir. "William Henderson's book is a richly entertaining account of fishing adventures, mostly in the North (the author was a carpet manufacturer from Durham) on such rivers as the Wear, Coquet and Tweed. Henderson knew some legendary fly-tyers of the time, including John Younger, the St Boswells shoemaker and author, James Wright of Sprouston (to whom we owe the "Greenwell's Glory" among other historic patterns), and Percival S. Wilkinson, whose famous salmon fly was regarded for years as the essential Tweed medicine." (Flyfisher's Classic Library). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1876 ). 1876 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 203mm). Ppxiv,324. Frontispiece (an actual tipped-in photograph) portrait & 6 engraved plates. Red-brown blind-ruled cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy. Author's compliments slip tipped-in. A classic Victorian memoir. "William Henderson's book is a richly entertaining account of fishing adventures, mostly in the North (the author was a carpet manufacturer from Durham) on such rivers as the Wear, Coquet and Tweed. Henderson knew some legendary fly-tyers of the time, including John Younger, the St Boswells shoemaker and author, James Wright of Sprouston (to whom we owe the "Greenwell's Glory" among other historic patterns), and Percival S. Wilkinson, whose famous salmon fly was regarded for years as the essential Tweed medicine." (Flyfisher's Classic Library). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1876 ). 1876 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 253mm). Ppxiv,324. Frontispiece (an actual tipped-in photograph) portrait & 6 engraved plates. Half green morocco, gilt title & angling emblems on spine, pebbled cloth boards, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Small bookplate of Charles B. Wood (Bibliotheca Salmo Salar), author's compliments slip tipped in. Small piece torn from rear end-paper, minor tanning. Generally a very good copy of the scarce large paper edition. "The contrast between these two editions is striking; the large-paper is fully two inches taller and nearly that much deeper; also it is thicker because it is printed on a heavier and better grade of paper. Also, the frontispiece photos of the author are different; in the large-paper he is shown seated with his salmon rod, in the regular copy he is shown head and shoulders only. The large-paper edition is said to have been limited to fifty copies." (Wood). .

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. for Private Circulation Only, 1876, First Edition, Large Paper Copy. Bound in contemporary half green goatskin, the spine divided into six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others tooled with gilt fishing motifs, gilt page edges, buckram paper boards, marbled paste downs and end papers, frontispiece albumen portrait of the author in wading boots. Wood engraved plates and text illustrations by Clement Burlison, engraved by Edmund Evans. xiii, 324pp. Approximately 10 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition divided into six compartments with raised gilt bands, gilt titles in the second and fourth, the others tooled with gilt fishing motifs, gently rubbed at the top. Joints good condition. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition bound in half contemporary green goatskin, with buckram boards, blind tooled fillets, general signs of wear. Page edges good condition all gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled, subsequent end papers lightly tanned and foxed, there is a book label pasted to the first free end paper in the top right hand corner 'Charles G. Brown' and there is an insert on the half title page which reads 'From Wm. Henderson' with his address in Germany. Title good condition lightly tanned. Pages good condition half title present, frontispiece albumen portrait of the author in wading boots with a printed signature at the bottom. Wood engraved plates and text illustrations by Clement Burlison, engraved by Edmund Evans, lightly tanned throughout with some minor foxing. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1876 Binding: Hardback.