[Rarebooks] FS: TROUT: Brook, Brown & Rainbow with beautiful hand-colored etchings and an original signed drawing

[Charles Agvent]

(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) ROBINSON, Alan James TROUT: BROOK, BROWN & RAINBOW
(Cheloniidae Press) (Easthampton, MA) (1986) First Edition. Oblong folio 
(14" x 9-1/2") beautifully bound by Gray Parrot in river-blue morocco 
with a large embossed trout on the cover with color onlays of its dorsal 
fin breaking the surface and a fly above the surface. Housed in a custom 
matching morocco-backed cloth clamshell box. Text by Stephen Bodio; 
calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Illustrated with etchings printed and hand 
watercolored by Alan James Robinson. Copy #VII of 15 copies (of a total 
edition of only 50) printed by Harold Patrick McGrath and SIGNED by 
Robinson. The edition of 15 has an extra portfolio containing a suite of 
the 14 etchings, each watercolored, SIGNED, and numbered by Robinson, 
plus an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING by Robinson. Fine in clamshell box. 
Beautiful book.     $4500.00
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