The Speckled Brook Trout.

EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS RHEAD,.

Item Number: 62079

New York: R.H. Russell, 1902.

Octavo, bound in three-quarters calf over buckram, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised band, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, top edge gilt, frontispiece, tissue guard, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Charles Hallock. Bookplate, in near fine condition.

"This historically important book is a mixed bag of turn-of-the-century writing on the celebrated native trout of Eastern North America as it was being eclipsed as a sporting quarry by the Western rainbow and the European brown" (Chris Camuto Gray's Sporting Journal).