Title: Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed... Author: Scrope, William Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1843 Description: [iii]-xvii, 298, + [2] ad pp. Half-title. With additional duotone lithographed pictorial title; 9 tinted lithographed plates; 3 hand-colored lithographed plates; 9 wood engravings in the text. 9¾x5¾, modern half red morocco, spine gilt, all edges gilt; original cloth covers bound in. First Edition. Perhaps most noteworthy for the beautiful tinted lithographs from paintings by David Wilkie Edwin Landseer Charles Landseer William Simson and Edward Cooke; these were withdrawn from the second edition of 1854, although the two hand-colored lithographs of salmon were retained. Westwood & Satchell notes that "copies of the first edition are scarce and sell for about 6 pounds," not a small sum in 1881. Quite uncommon in the original cloth. Westwood & Satchell p.191. Lot Amendments Condition: Some very mild foxing to first several plates; else fine and handsomely rebound. Item number: 162573
Title: Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed... Author: Scrope, William Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1843 Description: [iii]-xvii, 298, + [2] ad pp. Half-title. With additional duotone lithographed pictorial title; 9 tinted lithographed plates; 3 hand-colored lithographed plates; 9 wood engravings in the text. 9¾x5¾, modern half red morocco, spine gilt, all edges gilt; original cloth covers bound in. First Edition. Perhaps most noteworthy for the beautiful tinted lithographs from paintings by David Wilkie Edwin Landseer Charles Landseer William Simson and Edward Cooke; these were withdrawn from the second edition of 1854, although the two hand-colored lithographs of salmon were retained. Westwood & Satchell notes that "copies of the first edition are scarce and sell for about 6 pounds," not a small sum in 1881. Quite uncommon in the original cloth. Westwood & Satchell p.191. Lot Amendments Condition: Some very mild foxing to first several plates; else fine and handsomely rebound. Item number: 162573
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