THE ANGLER IN IRELAND OR AN ENGLISHMAN'S RAMBLE THROUGH CONNAUGHT AND MUNSTER, DURING THE SUMMER OF 1833 (2 VOLUMES)
London, England: Richard Bentley, 1834. First Editions. Leather-bound. Octavos. Recent quarterbound morocco over beige linen cloth boards. Bright gilt lettering to lightly sunned spines. NOTE: Author's name is misspelled on spine, as "Belton". Modified hubs to tops and bottoms of spines. Deckled edges all around. Grey endpapers with previous owner's name and date to each pastedown ("R.B. Thompson,/Ballindrum House,/Moneymore/August 1968"). Lovely, six-color bookplates with armorial design, (either never attached, or detached) laid in, bearing the crest of the MacGregor Clan. Top banner reading: Crioghail In Dhraim (i.e. "S Rioghal mo dhream" ( -- Royal is my race -- and the bottom banner reading "In Do Bait Spair Nocht" (In What You Do, Spare Nothing). The name of the previous owner below, in black script: "Joseph Malcomson Greeves". Foldout map of Cunnymara.
Tissue-guarded frontis engraving to each volume: "Killing a Salmon" * to Volume I and Lough Duloch in Volume II, both engraved by J. Clark after drawings by S. Lover. Printed by F. Shoberl, Jr., Leicester Square.
Rear of Volume II contains Table of Fish Killed Each Day, with dates, places and weights, followed by Index. 315 pp. & 312 pp. Very Good Plus. Item #88737
*NOTE:This cataloguer curiously marveled at the period method of what we now call "landing" or "catching" or "pulling in" a fish; in Bilton's fishing lingo, catching a fish is KILLING a fish, and thus called such -- repeatedly!
Price: $550.00