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"I Go A-Fishing" 1873 PRIME, W.C. (SOLD)

Harper & Brothers Publishers

[365] pp.

PRIME, W.C.

First Edition

1873

The Monastery Hill Bindery

A landmark angling book, one of the most popular of its day. Prime, a Princeton graduate, edited the New York Journal of Commerce, was president of the Associated Press, and was an early promoter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; for a time he also filled the chair of art history at Princeton.