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Author: Mayer, Alfred M., ed.
Title: Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Century Co.
Date Published: [1883]
Description:

888 pp. 11 mounted 'Japan-Proof' illustrations, numerous other full page plates. (4to) 28x18 cm (11x8"), red cloth with yellow blind stamp design and spine, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers. First Edition.

An important book collected from articles from The Century Magazine with numerous full-page illustrations reproduced from the leading artist of the day, including James Beard, Gurdon Trumbull, A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham, Howard Pyle and others. Chapters on hunting black bear, fox, buffalo, moose, deer, elk, antelope, fishing for Atlantic salmon, trout, bass, trout, bamboo rods, reels, bird dogs, archery, shotguns, bird taxidermy, etc. Bruns states "A tremendous work, with articles by such famous names as Dan Beard, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, James A. Henshall, Thaddeus Norris, John Burroughs, Charles E. Whitehead and others." J. C. Derby writes of this work as "a sumptuous illustrated volume, which has been a great success, and bids fair to become the standard work on American game." Bruns M 86; Phillips p. 256.

Wear, soiling, and fading to cloth, rubbing to extremities; hinges cracked, crease down middle of front free endpaper and period owner's name in pencil on front flyleaf, occasional light toning or foxing at page edges; very good.