Johnson Forest Lake And River

JOHNSON, FRANK M. Forest, Lake and River. The Fishes of New England and Eastern Canada. 2 volumes. Boston: Printed for Subscribers, 1902.

2 frontispieces (1 colored, 1 portrait; minor spotting & some marginal tanning to portrait), 52 plain plates (marginal dampstain to 1), 6 colored plates, 16 b&w plates (marginal dampstain to 1), and numerous vignettes and text-figures scattered throughout both vols. All plates, by A.D. Turner and S.E. Bickford, are accompanied by captioned tissue guards. 4to, pp. xxviii, 313; xi, 368, original olive-colored ooze (suede) calf with hand-painted salmon fly in color on front cover of both vols., along with a circular embossed decorative emblem, 1 gilt-decorated, on each front cover (very good; some fading to covers, which are lightly rubbed; patch residue to both spines; a few faint stains to rear cover of both vols., & a dampstain to lower margin of rear cover on Vol. 1; a dampstain to lower margin of last 41 leaves in Vol. 1; short tear to lower end of spine in Vol. 1; 2 small abrasions to edges of spine in Vol. 2, and both corners of front cover worn through; browning to the inner margin of 1 page in Vol. 2; Vol. 2 partially unopened), silk endpapers, edges of pp. uncut.

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