Pritt (Thomas Evan) The Book of the Grayling: Being a Description of the Fish, and the Art of...
Pritt (Thomas Evan) The Book of the Grayling: Being a Description of the Fish, and the Art of Angling for Him, as Practised Chiefly in the Midlands and the North of England, 1888, Leeds, Goodall and Suddick, First Edition, 4to, large paper copy, pp. 64 plus advert leaf, three chromolithographic plates, publisher's maroon cloth with Izaak Walton quote stamped in gilt to cover, t.e.g, Binding a little rubbed with some edge ware, some very light spotting, Aquatic Research Institute stamp dated 1970 to titlepage. Presented in a custom-made red cloth box also housing in matching cloth boards Pritt's original card cut out template of the real fish that is reproduced as the frontispiece, with the author's pencil testimony to verso (1).