Henry van Dyke
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896. Walton Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. 22cm x 15cm. xviii, 292 pages, 33 plates. Full dark green leather, ornate gilt decoration, all edges gilt. The Walton Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, of which this is number 106, signed by Dyke at the end of the preface and bound in a signed 1910 Zaehnsdorf fine leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration of leaves, fishing, flowers, and birds. Provenance: Angling Collection of George Miskin, Bloomsbury May 3rd, 2012, Lot 325. Spine discoloured. Crown fore-edge corner of lower board very slightly pushed. Frontispiece portrait slightly offset to title page. Shipped Weight: 1.1 kilos. Signed by Author.
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