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Viscount of Fallodon, Edward Grey.
Fallodon Papers.
Publisher: Constble & Co Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1926
Stock Code: 14912
Number 17 in a signed limited edition of 100 copies only. Octavo, pp., vii, 177, [1], woodcut head- and tailpieces by Robert Gibbings within text. Publisher’s ivory cloth, titled in gilt to spine, waterfowl vignette in gilt to upper cover. Top-edge gilt. Former ownership inscription in ink to front free end-paper. Spine rubbed, corners slightly bumped, faint soiling to boards. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy. Essays by the former foreign secretary, angler, and man of letters, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933). Includes the first text of the ‘The Fly-Fisherman’ and five addresses: ‘The Pleasure of Reading’, ‘Pleasure in Nature’, ‘Recreation’, ‘Some Thoughts on Public Life’, ‘Waterfowl at Fallodon’ and ‘Wordsworth’s “Prelude”’. Necessarily scarce. £45.00