Musa Piscatrix by John Buchan (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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

London/ Chicago: John Lane/ A.C. McClurg, 1896. presumed 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 36012 shelf. The Bodley Head Anthologies. Bright gold-stamped navy cloth, light-struck spine, slim fade line across top front cover. Small bkplate verso front cover. Clean text. Gilt top edge. Etched frontispiece: fishermen, loose tissue guard. Contribs: Shakespeare, William Browne, John Floud, John Bunyan, John Gay, Matthew Arnold, Andrew Lang (to whom the book is dedicated), et al. 16 pgs ads.