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[SPORTING CLUBS--PHILADELPHIA] BY A MEMBER [i.e. MILNOR, WILLIAM]. An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. From Its Establishment On That Romantic Stream, Near Philadelphia, In The Year 1732, To The Present Time.
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Black leather over spine and corners, marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, lettered and decorated, top edge gilt. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; viii, 127, [1 blank] pp., lithographed frontispiece, one plate with a mounted photograph of the club house, one lithographed portrait plate, errata slip bound in. Wear at spine, edges and corners, front hinge cracked but the sewing is sound, an area of chipping to the surface of the photograph, library stamp of The Newbury Library, perforated library stamp and ink deaccession stamp from the Field Museum Library.
William Milnor's enthusiastic histories of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, America's first angling club and the oldest continuously active social club in the English-speaking world. Westwood & Satchell p. 190; Sabin 49133; Phillips p. 265; Schwerdt IV, p. 66; Gee, Early American Sporting Books, pp. 46-47; Henderson, pp. 178-179; Howes M636; Wetzel p. 209; Bruns S74; Biscotti, Six Centuries, p. 256
C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman
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