Item 277 is a book for those who collect the sport of fishing, or angling as some prefer. It is Fishing at Home & Abroad, a 1913 work edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell. In his prefix Maxwell claims "heretofore no attempt has been made on a similar scale to provide in a single work information about fishing in all parts of the world." This book was limited to 750 copies. £998 (US $1,444).

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