Title: Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters Author: Mayer, Alfred M., editor Place: New York Publisher: Century Co. Date: [1883] Description: 892 pp. Illustrated from engravings and drawings, many full-page, including a frontispiece from an engraving by Elbridge Kingsley 25x17 cm. (9¾x6¾"), original light brown cloth, pictorially stamped in black, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition in one volume. Two certificates from the Berkeley school in New York City, dated 1884 are affixed to the front pastedown page, awarding the book to a student for excellence in scholarship. An important book collected from articles from The Century Magazine with numerous full-page illustrations reproduced from the leading artist of the day, including James Beard Gurdon Trumbull, A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham Howard Pyle and others. Bruns M 86; Phillips p. 256. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and soiling to binding with rubbing to extremities, cloth fraying a bit at spine; hinges cracked, a bit shaken; very good. Item number: 278017
Title: Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters Author: Mayer, Alfred M., editor Place: New York Publisher: Century Co. Date: [1883] Description: 892 pp. Illustrated from engravings and drawings, many full-page, including a frontispiece from an engraving by Elbridge Kingsley 25x17 cm. (9¾x6¾"), original light brown cloth, pictorially stamped in black, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition in one volume. Two certificates from the Berkeley school in New York City, dated 1884 are affixed to the front pastedown page, awarding the book to a student for excellence in scholarship. An important book collected from articles from The Century Magazine with numerous full-page illustrations reproduced from the leading artist of the day, including James Beard Gurdon Trumbull, A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham Howard Pyle and others. Bruns M 86; Phillips p. 256. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and soiling to binding with rubbing to extremities, cloth fraying a bit at spine; hinges cracked, a bit shaken; very good. Item number: 278017
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