The Quest of the Trout
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd, 1926.
Quarto, [x], 106 pages with 7 illustrations plus 5 tipped-in plates (from photographs).
Overlapping pictorial wrappers (with a small plate mounted on the front cover) mounted as issued on flush-cut plain card covers; edges of the wrappers a little chipped, with a short crack across the spine; contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy.
A posthumous publication: the author 'died on the seventeenth of September, 1926, before this book had gone through the press; but it is written exactly as he left it, save that Part IV ['Where to Fish'] has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a close friend and fellow angler'.
Item #110760
Price (AUD):
$450.00