
Lot 60•
PRITT (THOMAS EVAN) Yorkshire Trout Flies, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 250 COPIES], half-title, 12 lithographed plates (11 hand-coloured of flies), half morocco gilt by Tout, gilt angling devices (fish, and tackle) on spine, t.e.g., unless mentioned 8vo; and 3 others, angling (9)
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
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PRITT (THOMAS EVAN)
Yorkshire Trout Flies, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 250 COPIES], half-title, 12 lithographed plates (11 hand-coloured of flies), half morocco gilt by Tout, gilt angling devices (fish, and tackle) on spine, t.e.g., Leeds, Goodall and Suddick, 1885--[CRAWHALL (JOSEPH)] The Compleatest Angling Booke That Ever Was Writ, second edition, ONE OF 100 COPIES, AUTHOR'S COPY, numerous wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes by Crawhall, James Guthrie and W. Chapman, some hand-coloured, publisher's blind-stamped calf gilt, t.e.g., covers detached [Westwood & Satchell, p.69], 4to, [Newcastle, Andrew Reid, 1881]; Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "for my dear son Jos." on title, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by the author (some full-page), printed linen pockets on pastedowns, publisher's half vellum gilt, ties (one loose), slightly soiled, Field & Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1885--RONALDS (ALFRED) The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, fourth edition, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, Longman, 1849--WALTON (IZAAK) AND CHARLES COTTON. The Compleat Angler, 2 vol., "Lea and Dove Edition", NUMBER 56 OF 500 COPIES signed by the editor R.B. Marston, 54 photogravure plates after P.H. Emerson and others, illustrations, a few typescript notes by a later owner taped in, publisher's cloth, t.e.g., soiled, 4to, Sampson Low, 1888, unless mentioned 8vo; and 3 others, angling (9)
Footnotes
Provenance: First work, Radcliffe Walters, ownership inscription dated 1885; Second and third works, Joseph Crawhall, the first with bookplate, the other inscribed to his son; Fourth work, F.C. Dundas, and E. Lynton-Vicars, bookplates.