Lot 409
Cholmondeley-Pennell, Harry, editor
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Fishing Gossip, or Stray Leaves from the Note-Books of Several Anglers. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1866, 8vo, first edition, presentation copy from the editor inscribed on half title "Jonathan Couch Esq. with the editor's kind regards and thanks, 1866", frontispiece, publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, a few pages slightly soiled or with short marginal tears, rubbed
Footnote
Note: Two autograph letters signed from the editor, to J. Couch, the first proposing and discussing the idea of a book "under the name of Fishing Gossip and asking permission to reprint his article on the 'Torpedo', the second returning his original article, and 3 small ink sketches of a statue of Dagon, Astoreth and an Etruscan marine deity which are bound in at the end. Couch contributed the article Fishing and Fish-hooks of the Earliest Date.