david hunter strother illus (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. 12mo. (19.25cm); publisher's original dark brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamed in gilt on spine, and quintuple blind-ruled borders on covers; [vi],[3],4-223,[224] + [16]pp ads, with engraved title page and illustrations from life by Strother. Gilt-stamped red morocco leather bookplate of American bookseller Ernest R. Gee mounted to front pastedown, with pencil signature (Joseph Cox) to upper front endpaper. Old, very faint tidemark to right edge of textblock, with some foxing to a few preliminary and terminal leaves, and to margins of pp.85-114; two tiny tears to crown, with a tiny nick to cloth at right edge of front cover; the gilt is bright and unrubbed, with the cloth uncharacteristically even and without soil; Very Good+, housed in a custom clamshell case. An uncommonly nice copy of this sporting narrative, documenting the author's hunting and fishing adventures in the wilds of Randolph County, Virginia (now eastern West Virginia). The illustrations were provided by David Hunter Strother, aka "Porte Crayon," well-known as a visual chronicler of Virginia's western margins and, later, as a Cvil War illustrator. HOWES K-90; SABIN 37405; PHILLIPS, p.209. 89164.