Fine Books and Manuscripts

Charles Cotton and His River. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1928.4to, publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, limited issue, one of 50 unnumbered copies bearing the Derrydale imprint at the foot of the title-page. Complete with 10 full-page illustrations, one fold-out, and 12 tipped in head- and tail-pieces. This "is a rare and not easily recognized Derrydale" (Frazier). Minor edgewear; hinges starting; inner hinge cracked.