Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson STURGES, LEESalmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick. (Chicago:) Privately printed (for the author by Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1919 Small 4to (9 1/4 x 7 in.; 241 x 177 mm). 7 etched plates by Sturges with lettered tissue-guards, numerous text illustrations; some light browning. Original green boards, upper cover gilt-lettered, uncut; spine skillfully renewed with original backstrip laid down. Half blue morocco slipcase, spine gilt-lettered, chemise. One of only 50 copies, privately printed for Lee Sturges (1865–1954), a well-known Chicago artist and industrialist, frontispiece etching signed by Sturges. Bruns recounts how the author picked up the edition of 50 copies from the printer, leaving them on the kitchen table when he got home. That night the house burned down, with Sturges managing to rescue either four or five copies. Bruns, writing in 1975, was able to account for four copies, and possible a fifth. Rare. REFERENCE: Bruns S328; Wetzel p. 220 PROVENANCE: Ben Cohen (piscatorial bookplate)
Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson STURGES, LEESalmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick. (Chicago:) Privately printed (for the author by Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1919 Small 4to (9 1/4 x 7 in.; 241 x 177 mm). 7 etched plates by Sturges with lettered tissue-guards, numerous text illustrations; some light browning. Original green boards, upper cover gilt-lettered, uncut; spine skillfully renewed with original backstrip laid down. Half blue morocco slipcase, spine gilt-lettered, chemise. One of only 50 copies, privately printed for Lee Sturges (1865–1954), a well-known Chicago artist and industrialist, frontispiece etching signed by Sturges. Bruns recounts how the author picked up the edition of 50 copies from the printer, leaving them on the kitchen table when he got home. That night the house burned down, with Sturges managing to rescue either four or five copies. Bruns, writing in 1975, was able to account for four copies, and possible a fifth. Rare. REFERENCE: Bruns S328; Wetzel p. 220 PROVENANCE: Ben Cohen (piscatorial bookplate)
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