Alan James Robinson
Trout & Bass, 1993
Easthampton, MA: Press of the Sea Turtle
One of 50 deluxe copies with two extra suites of illustrations signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson: one suite of the black & white wood engravings from the text, and the other a series of six hand-colored etchings of trout and bass.
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Folio. 75pp., + (14), (6)ff. plates. A selection of prose and poetry in celebration of angling, from authors including John Dennys, Izaak Walton, John Gay, and James A. Henshall. Illustrated...
Folio. 75pp., + (14), (6)ff. plates. A selection of prose and poetry in celebration of angling, from authors including John Dennys, Izaak Walton, John Gay, and James A. Henshall. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings and hand-colored etchings of fish and some of the various flies used to catch them. In addition to being an artist and the founder of the Cheloniidae Press, later re-named Press of the Sea Turtle, Robinson was also a passionate fly-fisherman. Bound in quarter vellum with exposed stitching on the spine. Housed in a green raw silk box, inside of which are eighteen mounted and labeled flies hand-tied by master fly-tyer Jack Gartside, who also wrote the Afterword. Two prospectuses and letter from Robinson laid in. Spine of box a bit sunned and corners bumped, else near fine.


