[Rarebooks] fs: Orvis. "Fishing with the Fly," 1883

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(No. 7229 )  Orvis, Charles F. and A. Nelson Cheney. FISHING WITH THE FLY:
SKETCHES BY LOVERS OF THE ART, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF STANDARD FLIES.
Manchester, VT: C. F. Orvis, 1883. First printing, Full cloth, Duodecimo,
[iv], 302 pages, Colored plates. Good.
      Collection of 22 fishing stories, including F. E. Pond on the Poetry
of Fly Fishing; Seth Green on How to Cast a Fly; L. A. Beardslee on the
Salmon and Trout of Alaska; Fred Mather on the Grayling; A. Louis Miner, Jr.
on Fly-Fishing in the Yosemite; and much more. Illustrated with 15 color
plates lithographed by Milton Bradley and showing flies made by Charles
Orvis. BRUNS #O18; HAND #O97. Bound in original mustard-colored decorated
cloth over boards. Title page illustration by Vedder. Some mild bumps and
rubbing to cloth at spine ends, with slight fraying at top fore corners of
boards. Cloth is splitting along bottom 1.25" of lower joint. Front hinge
cracked, a couple of signatures beginning to pull. Overall an attractive
copy but with the mechanics of the binding weakening.    $350.00
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