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84 GREGORY, Lady Augusta. Hyacinth Halvey. New York: for John Quinn, 1906 THE TOP COPY, RETAINED BY QUINN First US edition, number 1 of 30 copies only, signed with initials by John Quinn, this being his own copy. The Irish American lawyer John Quinn (1870– 1924) first met Lady Gregory and other friends of W. B. Yeats on his first trip to Ireland in 1902. Quinn would become a major patron of the Celtic Revival and, at a later stage, was in an intense relationship with Lady Gregory. Provenance: John Quinn; Anderson Galleries, New York, 11 Dec. 1923, lot 3604. Small quarto. Original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers frayed at extremities with some minor loss, book block loosening, tear to fifth leaf, some uniform browning, still a very good copy of a rare pamphlet. £1,750 [149319]
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85 HALFORD, Frederick. Dry Fly Entomology. London: Vinton And Co., Limited, 1897 A DEFINING WORK OF MODERN ANGLING Edition de luxe, number 22 of 100 copies, signed and numbered on the title pages by the author. Halford remains renowned for the “enormous authority he commanded on his chose subject . . . he occupied a position that few angling writers have ever held either before or since” (Herd, p. 17). Halford’s (1844–1914) classic work, published a decade after his influential Floating Flies and How to Dress Them , “introduced both the methods and the ethics of the English chalk stream dry fly angler to a broad audience” (Whitelaw, p. 71). Among Halford’s readers was the American angler Theodore Gordon, who pioneered the introduction of Halford’s fly fishing techniques to the streams and rivers of New England. Halford “put dry-fly fishing on such a firm footing that its future was assured” (Herd, p. 17).
All 100 copies of this deluxe edition were assigned to subscribers (including several peers), with this copy for the booksellers A. and F. Denny of the Strand, London. 2 volumes, quarto. Original green crushed full morocco, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, turn- ins tooled elaborately in gilt, green marbled endpapers, vol. I top edge and edges of vol. II gilt, remaining edges of vol. I untrimmed. With 28 tissue-guarded plates (10 colour), 100 model flies recessed into 12 window mounts in vol. II, folding table, illustrations in text. Title pages printed in red and black. Binding toned, spine and extremities lightly rubbed, vol. I front free endpaper beginning to detach, contents bright with moderate foxing to some plates, foxing to frames in vol. II, flies well-preserved. A very good copy. ¶ Andrew Herd, “Frederick M. Halford: The Myth and the Man”, The American Fly Fisher, vol. 28 no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 12–17; Ian Whitelaw, The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies , 2019. £6,500 [153533]
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