A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Angling Book Plates: Held by the Grolier Club of the City of New York, June 6 to September 7, 1918 |
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25 copies pulled angler fishing Arms play artificial flies Autographed Autographed proof Book Process book-plate bottom of plate canoe century costume Compleat Angler conventional dolphins cream-colored paper creel and landing Crest dated by owner defaced plate designed by owner disjointed rod E. D. French English Engraving Etching Ex Libris fish pole Fisher fly hook Fred Thompson gaff gaff-hook green GROLIER CLUB haurient Henry ichthyic initialed and dated John landing-net leaders Library little brown jug Louis Rhead Motto naiant portrait Printed in black Printed in brown pulled in 1916 punning reel and creel reel and line Remarque proof signed and dated Signed in ink signed in pencil sinkers six copies pulled sketch Small reproduction Spenceley sporting stock plate stream thick paper Thomas Bewick three trout Tiffany & Co trade card tree Trial proof trout U. S. Armorial U. S. Pictorial vignette W. F. Hopson Walton water-craft white paper William
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Page 74 - And raise my low-pitched thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love. Thus, free from lawsuits, and the noise Of princes' courts, I would rejoice; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near...
Page 29 - Oh ! the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any ; 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many : Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is ; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.