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An edition of Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness (1895)

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Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau binding in gold, green and white on smooth dark blue cloth. A series of lyrical essays about rivers the author has visited and fished in the United States, Canada and overseas. A beautiful copy of one of Armstrong's stained glass style bindings. -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.

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Musson
Language
English
Pages
193

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Fishing Outdoor life Rivers Plein air Cours d'eau Pêche sportive American literature Essays (single author) Bookbinding Specimens American Authors

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1995, Musson
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1920, C. Scribner's Sons
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1911, C. Scribner's sons
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1906, Charles Scribner's Sons
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1904, Copp, Clark
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1903, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1895, Charels Scribner's sons
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1895, C. Scribner's sons
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1895, C. Scribner's Sons
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Little Rivers
1895

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Table of Contents

Contents: Prelude
Little rivers
A Leaf of spearmint
Ampersand
A handfull of heather
The Restigouche from a horse-yacht
Alpenrosen and goat's-milk
Au large
Trout-fishing in the Traun
At the sign of the balsam bough
A song after sundown.

Edition Notes

'"And suppose he take nothing, yet he enjoyeth a delightful walk, ..." Col. Robert Venables, The Experienced Angler, 1662.'

Includes index.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1995.

viii, 291 p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

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Toronto
Series
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 77447

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.5

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Microform
Pagination
4 microfiches (193 fr.)
Number of pages
193

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17510660M
Internet Archive
cihm_77447
ISBN 10
0665774478

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Work ID
OL2254119W

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