My Rod, My Comfort. With wood engravings by J. Gaastra
(Dropmore Press.) LOCKHART (Robert Bruce)
Publication Date: 1949
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430/500 COPIES (from an overall edition of 550 copies) printed on cream wove paper from Hodgkinson of Wells, frontispiece wood engraving and title fish vignette printed in russet, 4 further full-page wood engravings in black, pp. [vi], 75, (iii0, small folio, vellum-backed green buckram boards with gilt fish vignette on upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, lower corners slightly knocked, binder's crease at lower edge of vellum of front board and spine, very good. From fishing trout, as a boy in the Highlands, to angling adventures in Malaya, Russia, Yugoslavia and, notably, Czechoslovakia, where the author, highly respected for his military and political histories, including Memoirs of a British agent, got to know Karel Capek, 'a passionate observer of nature who worked out his own theories and had amassed an immense knowledge of the life and ways of fresh-water fish.' Gaastra's detailed engravings are full of light and movement. Seller Inventory # 75521
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Title: My Rod, My Comfort. With wood engravings by ...
Publication Date: 1949
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