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Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Magee (Lesley). Fly Fishing, 1994, one of 10 hors commerce copies
Magee (Lesley). Fly Fishing. The North Country Tradition, Otley: Smith Settle, 1994. 2 volumes (text and fly specimens), 8vo, original green goatskin (specimens volume quarter-bound), text volume with all plates as called for (including tipped-in colour photographs), specimens volume with 30 fly specimens on 5 thick card mounts, housed together in original green cloth slipcase, text volume with pale marks to front board. Together with 2 others similar (Hugh Sheringham & John C. Moore, The Book of the Fly-Rod, 1st edition, one of 195 copies signed by illustrator George Sheringham, 1931, 4to, original quarter vellum, 11 colour plates; and T. E. Pritt, North-Country Flies, facsimile edition, Smith Settle, 1995, 8vo, original cloth, slipcase) (qty: 3)
Magee: deluxe edition, one of ten hors commerce copies lettered A-J and signed by the author (this copy lettered G); there were also 50 copies numbered 1-50.
Sold for £900
Estimated at £500 - £800
Magee - a little marking to binding of text volume, otherwise Fine.
Pritt - Fine
Sheringham - Light foxing to endpapers and early leaves. Gutter gaping a little after p. vi, couple of spots to closed edges, top edge gilt a little dust marked, vellum gilt a little dull.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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