Salmon fishing / by Eric Taverner, with contributions by G.M.L. La Branche, Eric Parker, W.J.M. Menzies, J.A. Rennie, A.H.E. Wood, Wyndham Forbes, Thomas Rook & Allan Bacon, … ; with three hundred & seven illustrations.
Eric Taverner
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101165
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 472 p., [69] p. of plates : ill. (1 col.), maps ; 8vo. Copy no. 57. Signed by the author. Shelved with other works from the Lonsdale library of sports, games & pastimes. Pencil price and date on front free endpaper verso: "£5/5-" and "10/31". Pencil date on guardsheet for salmon-flies at end: "10/31". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: coat of arms of the Earl of Lonsdale, gilt lettered 'The Lonsdale library'; small gilt stamped cornerpieces on upper board: Lonsdale monogram (coronet above the letter 'L'); recessed cords; blind fillets on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt stamped): 'The Lonsdale library' and 'Salmon fishing Taverner & others'; gilt stamped coronets in remaining spine compartments; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; blue ribbon marker. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Eric Taverner, author