Salmon Fishing
Price: $1,750.00
Hard Cover. London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1931. First Limited Edition. Near Fine.
Lonsdale Library, Volume 10. Illustrated with 111 plates, and 214 in-text drawings. With seven salmon flies tied by the Hardy Brothers that "[illustrate] the various Schools of Modern Fly Dressing" mounted in the back. The seven flies include: March Brown (A. H. E. Wood), Blue Charm (A. H. E. Wood), Pink Lady (G. M. L. La Branche), Gipps (A. H. Chaytor), Sally (T. E. Price Tannatt), Black Silk (E. Crossfield), and Turkey Jackson (J. Jackson). First limited edition. One of 275 numbered copies signed by Taverner, this being number 276 (possibly out-of-series). Publisher's full blue morocco, with Lonsdale Library emblem in gilt to front cover, five raised bands to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, and blue marbled endpapers. Near fine, with rubbing to spine ends, joints, and corners, bright gilt on spine and front cover, some light marks to covers, a nick to lower spine compartment, some dimming to top edge gilt, and toning to edges of front endpapers. Overall, a wonderful example, richly illustrated. The author of Salmon Fishing, Eric Taverner, writes in the book's preface, "This volume marks the completion of an attempt to present in all humility to the angling world a summary of the modern practice of fishing for trout and salmon, as well as compressed accounts of the many branches connected with the art itself by the leading specialists of the day …" Salmon Fishing is the 10th volume in the Lonsdale Library series, a British series of more than 30 books published between 1929 and the 1950s, written by experts on a range of sporting subjects, including fishing, mountaineering, golf, cricket, hunting, motor racing, and more. The second book in the series, Trout Fishing from All Angles (1929), was also authored by Eric Taverner. Item #ETA001
