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SAGE, DEAN; TOWNSEND, C. H.; SMITH, H. M.; and HARRIS, WILLIAM C. Salmon and Trout. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Large paper copy (issued in an edition of 100 copies, this is without any limitation statement, probably a special copy intended for presentation). With an inscribed card presenting the book from Dean Sage to R. B. Marston, the English angler and angling author, mounted on the pastedown (with a few pencilled notations in Marston's hand regarding Sage's untimely death on the card, and some notes elsewhere in his hand); a two-page letter from Sage to Marston regarding the presentation (first leaf only preserved) affixed to the front free endpaper; and two contemporary obituaries of Sage and a letter to Marston from W. A. Willes. Publisher's three-quarters olive morocco, marbled sides, top edge gilt. 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (23 x 15.5 cm); x, 417 pp., illustrated by illustrated by A. B. Frost, Tappan Adney, Martin Justice and others. Binding toned to tan, light wear. A remarkable presentation copy between Dean Sage and Robert Bright Marston, two of the great luminaries of angling at the turn of the century. Marston was the editor of The Fishing Gazette from 1878 to 1927, and a major authority on the Compleat Angler and Izaak Walton. Dean Sage was, to some extent, his American counterpart, a nonpareil fisherman and litterateur, the author of The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. Bruns S5; Hampton p. 245. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson