Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

Henry van Dyke
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896.
Walton Edition. Signed by Author

22cm x 15cm. xviii, 292 pages, 33 plates. Full dark green leather, ornate gilt decoration, all edges gilt.

The Walton Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, of which this is number 106, signed by Dyke at the end of the preface and bound in a signed 1910 Zaehnsdorf fine leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration of leaves, fishing, flowers, and birds. Provenance: Angling Collection of George Miskin, Bloomsbury May 3rd, 2012, Lot 325.

Spine discoloured. Crown fore-edge corner of lower board very slightly pushed. Frontispiece portrait slightly offset to title page. Very Good Condition.

SOLD