The Sport of Fishing [Salmon & Trout > Scotland] - 1923

John MacKeachan (John Hectorson) - The Sport of Fishing, with an introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell Bt. and sixteen illustrations - London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1923 - 1st edition - XVII+302+17 photo illustrations hors texte (including frontispiece) - Hardcover: linen binding with dark green intaglio print on the front cover and dark green printed spine & back cover - 14.70x21 .70cm - Good copy: signs of wear and use on the cover (some drop spots and an ink stain (top) on the front cover - see photo), front endpapers with handwritten notes & ex-libris from 1944, linen damage to the back cover (see photo), sporadic foxing spots.

•      Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet (1845–1937) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, prominent salmon angler and author of books on angling and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906

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