Halford, F. M.

Making a Fishery

F. M. Halford. Making a Fishery. London: Horace Cox, Windsor House, Bream’s Buildings, E.C., 1895. First edition.

Octavo. [viii], 212 pages. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, four plates, in-text figures, decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces. Bound in publisher’s dark blue cloth over beveled boards with gilt frame and lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, upper edge gilt; green decorative endpapers, bookseller label of Frederick R. Jones in Torquay on front pastedown.

Binding with light shelf wear, corners and spine ends bumped, first and last blank pages darkened, three small paper stickers on verso of frontis and facing blank, occasional unobtrusive reading and underlines, margin note on page 22, textblock solid, but over-opened at signature “F”. Overall, very good. HFP-697. Item #697

Price: $250.00