Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed (1843)

Author: William Scrope

Book ID: 68813

Price: 1,250.00

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to the Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc. London: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. Beautifully bound in full crimson morocco gilt by Riviere and Son. Light spotting to frontispiece plate, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Illustrated with Twelve tinted and hand-coloured lithograph plates and wood-engraved illustrations by L. Haghe, T. Landseer and S. Williams after Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke.

The scarce first edition of one of the most important and readable early salmon fishing books, in a sumptuous binding.

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