Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Walton, Izaak; et al. Trout & Bass: A Collection of Prose and Poetry from Four Centuries. 6 signed watercolored etchings, 8 wood engravings, and 10 linocut drawings by Alan James Robinson; additional suite of signed prints. Folio, pressed paper boards; signed and hand-colored prospectus laid in; extra suite in cloth folder; both laid into cloth clamshell box. (Easthampton: Press of the Sea Turtle, 1993)
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one of only two artist proof copies from the limitation of fifty deluxe copies. Contains a selection of presentation fish flies mounted inside front cover, tied by master flytier Jack Gartside. An additional signed watercolor of a leaping rainbow trout is laid in. A collection of prose and poetry from four centuries by Walton, Dennys, Seabury, Russell, and Henshall. Introduction by Stephen Bodio and an afterword by Gartside.