BRITISH FRESH - WATER FISHES BY WILLIAM HOUGHTON 1879 First Edition In Two Volumes
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[HOUGHTON, WILLIAM]. British Fresh-Water Fishes. Illustrated with a Coloured Figure of Each Species Drawn from Nature by A. F. Lydon and Numerous Engravings. London / Edinburgh and Dublin: William Mackenzie, 1879.
Hardcover. First edition. In two volumes (Division I and Division II), complete. Full cloth. Folio (370 x 280mm), pp. [xxvi], 92, [20] leaves of plates; 93-204, [21] leaves of plates (pagination continuous). English text.&nbs...p; Dated from Preface, March 1st, 1879. Publisher's original dark red textured cloth decorated in gilt and black with angling vignettes; bevelled boards; all edges gilt. Half-titles; title-pages printed in red and black; 38 steel engraved head-pieces to each section of text; illustrated with 41 tissue-guarded hand-coloured engraved plates of fishes, engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after paintings by Alexander Francis Lydon, plus 64 engraved illustrations of river and lake scenes. Condition: FINE. Collated complete. Bindings tight and square. Contents remarkably fresh and clean. Without bookplates or inscriptions. The Reverend William Houghton's lavishly-produced two volume work on the British species of freshwater fish, magnificently illustrated and rarely found in fine condition.
Footnote:
Reverend William Houghton, a Shropshire clergyman, produced this work with the angler in mind - opposed to the naturalist. The fine coloured printed plates are drawn from nature by A.F. Lydon, and beautifully rendered in delicate chromolithography by Benjamin Fawcett, who was notably responsible for printing the plates in Morris's British Birds and the same author's book on the homes of the British nobility, William Greene's Parrots in Captivity and David Wooster's Alpine Plants, amongst others. This work could not have been more generously produced, with its lavish backgrounds to the river banks, and the substantial and detailed illustrations. Many of the fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish set on the pastoral riverbanks and shorelines of the British Isles. The writing, which accompanies each plate, offers detailed information on the habitat, breeding and capture of the fish. The text page includes a lovely steel-engraved vignette of the natural habitat of the fish, an elegant scene of the river from which the fish was caught. The coloured, chromolithographic plates of the fish and the facing, picturesque Vignettes are as follows: I. Perch; II. Ruffe and Miller’s Thumb (Vignette: On the Avon, Strensham Reach); III. Sticklebacks (Vignette: Easdale, Grasmere); IV. Carp (Vignette: On the Brathay); V. Crucian Carp and Prussian Carp (Vignette: Breddgelert, North Wales); VI. Golden and Bronze Carp (Vignette: On the Avon); VII. Gudgeon and Barbel (Vignette: On the Thames); VIII. Roach (Vignette: On the Hodder); IX. Chub (Vignette: On the Lea); X. Graining and Dace (Vignette: Pont Aberglaslyn, North Wales); XI. Azurine, Dobule and Rudd, or Red-Eye (Vignette: On the Dart); XII. Tench (On the Thames); XIII. Golden Tench; XIV. Common Bream (Vignette: Rydal Water); XV. Pomeranian Bream and White Bream or Breamflat (Vignette: On the Thames, near Eton); XVI. Spined Loach, Minnow, Loach and Bleak (Vignette: On the Derwent); XVII. Allis Shad and Twaite Shad (Vignette: On the Wye); XVIII. Pike (Vignette: On the Doon); XIX. Salmon (Male) (Vignette: On the Tweed); XX. Salmon Trout (On the Dee, Scotland); XXI. Salmon Trout (Var); XXII. Sewen (Vignette: River Scene, Aberglaslyn); XXIII. Bull Trout (Vignette: River Scene, Langdale); XXIV. Galway Sea Trout (Vignette: On the Dargle); XXV. Short-Headed Salmon (On the Devon, Scotland); XXVI. Common Trout (On the Trout Stream – Driffield); XXVII. Black-Finned Trout (On the Llugwy, North Wales); XXVIII. Grilled, or Young Salmon; XXIX. Lochleven Trout (Vignette: Loch Katrine – Ellen’s Isle); XXX. Gillaroo Trout (Vignette: Loch Awe); XXXI. Great Lake Trout (Vignette: Pass of Leny); XXXII. Windermere Charr, Cole’s Charr and Gray’s Charr (Vignette: Windermere); XXXIII. Torgoch and Alpine Charr (Vignette: River Scene ar Pont-y-Cyffing); XXXIV. Loch Killin Charr (On the Wye); XXXV. Vendace, Gwyniad and Grayling (Vignette: On the Dart, Lover’s Leap); XXXVI. Pollan and Powan (Vignette: The Wye, from Goodrich Castle); XXXVII. Young Trout, Salmon Parr and Smelt (Vignette: At Cleeve, on the Thames); XXXVIII. Burbot, Eel-Pout (On the Wharpe); XXXIX. Sturgeon (On the Dee); XL. Sharp-Nosed Eel and Broad-Nosed Eel (Vignette: Eel Bucks on the Thames); XLI. Sea-Lamprey, Lampern, Planer’s Lamprey and Pride (Vignette: At Scalby Mill, near Scarborough). [Freeman 1782 / Nissen ZBI 2009 / Wood page 391].
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Hardcover. First edition. In two volumes (Division I and Division II), complete. Full cloth. Folio (370 x 280mm), pp. [xxvi], 92, [20] leaves of plates; 93-204, [21] leaves of plates (pagination continuous). English text.&nbs...p; Dated from Preface, March 1st, 1879. Publisher's original dark red textured cloth decorated in gilt and black with angling vignettes; bevelled boards; all edges gilt. Half-titles; title-pages printed in red and black; 38 steel engraved head-pieces to each section of text; illustrated with 41 tissue-guarded hand-coloured engraved plates of fishes, engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after paintings by Alexander Francis Lydon, plus 64 engraved illustrations of river and lake scenes. Condition: FINE. Collated complete. Bindings tight and square. Contents remarkably fresh and clean. Without bookplates or inscriptions. The Reverend William Houghton's lavishly-produced two volume work on the British species of freshwater fish, magnificently illustrated and rarely found in fine condition.
Footnote:
Reverend William Houghton, a Shropshire clergyman, produced this work with the angler in mind - opposed to the naturalist. The fine coloured printed plates are drawn from nature by A.F. Lydon, and beautifully rendered in delicate chromolithography by Benjamin Fawcett, who was notably responsible for printing the plates in Morris's British Birds and the same author's book on the homes of the British nobility, William Greene's Parrots in Captivity and David Wooster's Alpine Plants, amongst others. This work could not have been more generously produced, with its lavish backgrounds to the river banks, and the substantial and detailed illustrations. Many of the fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish set on the pastoral riverbanks and shorelines of the British Isles. The writing, which accompanies each plate, offers detailed information on the habitat, breeding and capture of the fish. The text page includes a lovely steel-engraved vignette of the natural habitat of the fish, an elegant scene of the river from which the fish was caught. The coloured, chromolithographic plates of the fish and the facing, picturesque Vignettes are as follows: I. Perch; II. Ruffe and Miller’s Thumb (Vignette: On the Avon, Strensham Reach); III. Sticklebacks (Vignette: Easdale, Grasmere); IV. Carp (Vignette: On the Brathay); V. Crucian Carp and Prussian Carp (Vignette: Breddgelert, North Wales); VI. Golden and Bronze Carp (Vignette: On the Avon); VII. Gudgeon and Barbel (Vignette: On the Thames); VIII. Roach (Vignette: On the Hodder); IX. Chub (Vignette: On the Lea); X. Graining and Dace (Vignette: Pont Aberglaslyn, North Wales); XI. Azurine, Dobule and Rudd, or Red-Eye (Vignette: On the Dart); XII. Tench (On the Thames); XIII. Golden Tench; XIV. Common Bream (Vignette: Rydal Water); XV. Pomeranian Bream and White Bream or Breamflat (Vignette: On the Thames, near Eton); XVI. Spined Loach, Minnow, Loach and Bleak (Vignette: On the Derwent); XVII. Allis Shad and Twaite Shad (Vignette: On the Wye); XVIII. Pike (Vignette: On the Doon); XIX. Salmon (Male) (Vignette: On the Tweed); XX. Salmon Trout (On the Dee, Scotland); XXI. Salmon Trout (Var); XXII. Sewen (Vignette: River Scene, Aberglaslyn); XXIII. Bull Trout (Vignette: River Scene, Langdale); XXIV. Galway Sea Trout (Vignette: On the Dargle); XXV. Short-Headed Salmon (On the Devon, Scotland); XXVI. Common Trout (On the Trout Stream – Driffield); XXVII. Black-Finned Trout (On the Llugwy, North Wales); XXVIII. Grilled, or Young Salmon; XXIX. Lochleven Trout (Vignette: Loch Katrine – Ellen’s Isle); XXX. Gillaroo Trout (Vignette: Loch Awe); XXXI. Great Lake Trout (Vignette: Pass of Leny); XXXII. Windermere Charr, Cole’s Charr and Gray’s Charr (Vignette: Windermere); XXXIII. Torgoch and Alpine Charr (Vignette: River Scene ar Pont-y-Cyffing); XXXIV. Loch Killin Charr (On the Wye); XXXV. Vendace, Gwyniad and Grayling (Vignette: On the Dart, Lover’s Leap); XXXVI. Pollan and Powan (Vignette: The Wye, from Goodrich Castle); XXXVII. Young Trout, Salmon Parr and Smelt (Vignette: At Cleeve, on the Thames); XXXVIII. Burbot, Eel-Pout (On the Wharpe); XXXIX. Sturgeon (On the Dee); XL. Sharp-Nosed Eel and Broad-Nosed Eel (Vignette: Eel Bucks on the Thames); XLI. Sea-Lamprey, Lampern, Planer’s Lamprey and Pride (Vignette: At Scalby Mill, near Scarborough). [Freeman 1782 / Nissen ZBI 2009 / Wood page 391].
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