London: John Lane, 1896. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. E. Philip Pimlott. Hardcover, polished blue calf with ornate gilt rule to edges of both covers, spine with brown calf label with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, blue and gray pattern endpapers. Decorative gilt design overall on spine. 107 pages, 6 etchings by E. Philip Pimlott. Edited by R.H. Case. A fine anthology of angling poetry, compiled by Buchan and published while he was still a student at Oxford. Sources include William Shakespeare, John Dennys, Phineas Fletcher, WilliamBrowne, Edmund Waller, John Floud, Sir Henry Wotton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Basse, Izaak Walton, John Donne, John Chalkhill, Charles Cotton, John Bunyan, Alexander Pope, John Gay, James Thomson, John Armstrong, and others. Mild sunning to top edge of covers, ink name and short inscription dated '96 on first blank page. Otherwise clean and tight. Record # 382686

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Bookseller: Browsing Is Arousing (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 382686
Title: Musa Piscatrix [The Bodley Anthologies]
Author: Buchan, John (Ed.)
Illustrator: E. Philip Pimlott
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: None
Edition: 1st
Publisher: John Lane
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1896
Keywords: Literature, Anthologies, E. Philip Pimlott, .
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