Haslope, P.L.

Practical Sea Fishing. A Handbook for Sea Anglers.

London/New York: Upcott Gill/ Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

Thick octavo, 274 pages + ads. First edition of this thorough manual for sea fishing, illustrated with plates and drawings in the text. Some starting of the brittle preliminary ads, otherwise fine, in publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. With the engraved book plate of Henry A. Sherwin, Cleveland banker and wholesaler and founder of Sherwin-Williams paint company. Sherwin's famed collection of books on fish and fishing was auctioned at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1946, and the catalogue published by the auction house as Bibliotheca Piscatoria.