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Lot 112
[ANGLING] Fisherman's Verse.
Brandon, Vermont: The Little Shop, 1907. Copy 175 of 200 copies. Publisher's tan wrappers printed with the title in white. 9 x 5 1/4 inches (22.75 x 13.5 cm); 12 ff., printed in red and black, with small woodcuts, Arts and Crafts-style initials etc. Minor soiling to lower edge of wrappers, but in all in very respectable condition. Small period bookplate.
"Printed at the Little Shop among the Maples at Beautiful Brandon, Vermont, where Woodruff, the Printer, does things with type." A very ephemeral Arts and Crafts style publication; Woodruff was J.E. Woodruff, whose work was favorably reviewed by The Inland Printer the same year. This scarce little publication was probably written by him, though no author is named. It consists of a series of verses primarily directed to trout fishermen (of which the author was clearly one), in vaguely Rubaiyatian quatrains. Coarse fishing is also covered in the final verse directed to "The kid that digs the worms." Seemingly unrecorded in the standard bibliographies, no copies that we can locate at auction or retail, and only two locations on ESTC.
C The Property of a New England Family
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