Archive of Meadow Run Press Sporting Book Publisher (1989-2010), including the publisher's own copies of the books, original artwork, correspondence, typescripts, proofs, ephemera, editorial foul matter, etc. by (Meadow Run Press) - 2010

Stone Harbor; Far Hills, New Jersey, 2010. Approx 60 linear feet (31 file boxes and 1 box of oversize material). Fine. Approx 60 linear feet (31 file boxes and 1 box of oversize material). The Archive of Meadow Run Press, sporting book publisher 1989-2010.
For two decades William D. Trego's Meadow Run Press set the standards for American sporting book publishing and issued a series of finely produced original works by new and established authors as well as sporting club histories, privately printed angling volumes, and a select group of reprints of neglected classics. The books, among them Sea Level and Marquesa by Jeffrey Cardenas, The Henryville Fly Fishers by Ernest Schwiebert, Live Water by Tom McGuane, and the cult classic, The Starlight Creek Angling Society by Harry Middleton, are notable for their content and for a consistent attention to design, illustration, and the form of the finished book. Many of the titles were also issued in limited deluxe editions with special bindings and additional material by the artists and authors; several were printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson of Austin, Texas. The books were uniformly well received by reviewers and readers alike, and several were reprinted on multiple occasions.
The publisher, Mr. William D. Trego, variously of Stone Harbor and Far Hills, New Jersey, was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Temple University, and Villanova University. He established the press as his interests in collecting evolved from American literature to American sporting books and to the outdoors. From modest beginnings in 1989 with a reprint of a classic American angling work, he undertook to publish original works and commissioned suitable illustration art from living American artists including Peter Corbin, John Swan, John Rice, and others. The Meadow Run Press books reflected the publisher's style and something of his character as well: Tom McGuane, now a legendary figure in American outdoor writing, wrote to Mr. Trego, "The books are beautiful and you've done such a fantastic job on this project - in every way! I've been writing for a living for almost three decades and this is, by far, my most pleasant publishing experience" (autograph letter, signed, dated 27 December 1996, in the archive).
The Archive includes editorial, business, and production correspondence relating to the books and to their sale to mail-order and trade customers, with significant exchanges with authors Tom McGuane, Ernest Schwiebert, Tosh Brown, David Swanson, John Cole, and others, as well as with the artists commissioned by the press. Mr. Trego views The Starlight Creek Angling Society as one of the most significant accomplishments of the press, and this is documented in the original typescript of the book, as well as in the extensively edited drafts and abundant correspondence with the author, who died, untimely, soon after the book was published. The other important discovery of the press was Jeffrey Cardenas, whose first book, Marquesa, has become a modern salt water angling classic. M.L. Biscotti's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1926-1985 (1997) is a significant addition to the tradition of sporting reference works. Mr. Trego is himself a well-regarded writer and one large archive box relating to his earlier articles is present. The archive also includes a variety of submission manuscripts for works that the press declined to publish.
As a bookman, Mr. Trego is known for his his meticulous insistence on condition; all of the publisher's copies of books are in superb condition, most with warm inscriptions from the authors and often with original drawings by the artists. Much of the smaller format artwork has been put into boxes to accompany notable typescripts, such as the raw, unedited typescript of Schwiebert's Henryville Fly Fishers, or the substantial archive of Harry Middleton material. Generally the condition of materials in the archive files is fine; some of the correspondence is on thermal fax paper and thus may present conservation issues in the longer term. Mr. Trego is at work on a book on Harry Middleton and Starlight Creek, and retains all publishing rights in the Middleton material (suitable acknowledgment of the owner of the archive would be made when the book is published). A full description of the contents is available.
A substantial archive and a rich glimpse into American sporting publishing at the close of the twentieth century.

DETAILED LISTING OF CONTENTS:
Box 1: Schwiebert, Henryville Fly Fishers, publisher's copy, inscr. by author & artist; Henryville Fly Fishers, illustrations by Taylor Kane (boxed); Doherty, Notes from a Fishing Journal, 2010, publisher's copy with inserted note and photograph from author; original illustrations by Chet Reneson for Notes from a Fishing Journal, 2010; Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club, publisher's copy, inscr. by authors, with set of proofs of same; Cardenas, Marquesa, publisher's copy, inscr. by author; McGuane, Live Water, inscr. by author & with signed watercolor by artist John Swan; Spencer-Churchill, Tarpon Fishing, 1998 ed., inscr. by artist John Rice & Randy White, author of intro.; Spencer-Churchill, Tarpon Fishing, deluxe ed., copy no. 1; Brown, Megalops, publisher's copy, inscr. by author & artist John Rice; Rice, original illustrations for Tosh Brown's Megalops (boxed); D. Swanson, Water Music, publisher's copy, inscr. by author; Izaak Walton, publisher's copy, inscr. by H. Carmichael; Cole, Fish of My Years, inscr. by author & artist; R. Swanson, Record Atlantic Salmon, bound proofs; R. Swanson, Grand Cascapedia Giants, one of 3 final proofs; Middleton, Rivers of Memory inscr. to WDT with typed note.

Box 1A : Starlight Creek Angling Society : Original first draft computer printout typescript with numerous pencil and ink corrections by Harry Middleton, second draft typescript (with numerous alterations), original illustration art (ten pencil drawings) by Peter Corbin, camera ready pages for book, trial case binding and slipcase for book, in custom green and tan cloth case.

Box 1B : Starlight Creek Angling Society : Middleton Correspondence and Galleys, including approx. 30 letters from Middleton to Trego, successive digital galley proofs marked for corrections, publisher's correspondence, and a dummy binding, in custom green and tan cloth case.

Box 2: R. Swanson, Grand Cascapedia Giants, deluxe binding, copy no. 18, inscr. to publisher; R. Swanson, Grand Cascapedia Giants, trade issue, inscr. to publisher; Brown, Megalops, f&g sheets, unbound in sample cover & slipcase; Schwiebert, Death of a Riverkeeper, deluxe ed., copy P/1 (of 5 for presentation); R. Swanson, Fish Models, Plaques, and Effigies, proofs & dummy; Doherty, Notes from a Fishing Journal, 2010, author's typescript & successive proofs; Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club, successive proofs; Trego, Horses & Hounds, Sporting Art of Barbara Howard, computer typescript & proofs; John Rice, proof/camera ready artwork.

Box 3: Schwiebert, Henryville Fly Fishers, original unedited computer generated typescript, inscr. to publisher (plus a duplicate, incomplete or shorter copy); McGuane, Live Water, deluxe ed. copy no. 1, with inserted correspondence; Cardenas, Sea Level, deluxe ed., copy no. 1; D. Swanson, Water Music, deluxe ed., copy no. 1; McPhee, American Shad, trade issue, signed by author & artist; Rice, original illustrations for American Shad, in half morocco slipcase; Sea Level, Original Artwork.

Box 4: Garrison & Carmichael, Master's Guide (1999), deluxe ed., copy no. 1, with matching box containing artwork; Garrison & Carmichael, Master's Guide (1999), blue lines, disk, sample; promotional materials for fourth ed.; American Shad, production proofs; Reiger, Silver King, camera ready pages; Caught on the Fly, blue lines; Starlight Creek, blue lines; Sloan, Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here, duplicated typescript.

Box 5: from MRP flat files: Lamb, Bright Salmon & Brown Trout, proofs, sample case bindings & ephemera, Gordon Allen etchings; Cloverleaf Studios bindery samples for Garrison & Carmichael

Box 6: MRP files: correspondence re: Deluxe Editions (Spencer-Churchill, Biscotti, Live Water); Dimock

Box 7: MRP files: Connett, My Friend the Trout, production files; sales records (Reiger, Wetzel, Middleton); correspondence with printers & binders

Box 8: MRP files: Marquesa Deluxe, Hoagy Carmichael (thick), Dana Lamb, Taxes, Cole (2), Cardenas (thick); production; taxes

Box 9: MRP files: Wetzel deluxe, Caught on the Fly, Trego Genealogy, Book of the Tarpon, Mailing Lists

Box 10: from MRP flat files: McGuane ephemera (labels & cards); Live Water f&gs; drawings, proofs & correspondence with John Cole re: Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat, also with John Swan re: art; digital files for Tarpon & Thanatopfish, Marquesa labels; stamping dies for Tosh Brown, Megalops; Master's Guide 1994 f&gs; trial binding (American Shad?); file copy, Dimock, 2004 rpt; Peter Corbin, 2 original fly drawings; Spencer-Churchill, deluxe f&g sheets; Water Music, production proofs; Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club constitution & rule book; Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club spiral bound proofs, 2 copies, 9/20/2003; small folder MRP logo & other camera ready images, proof photos; 3 TLS from Nick Lyons; Thanatopfish sample case binding & ephemera

Box 11: MRP files: Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat, edited typescripts & correspondence with author John Cole; sales & correspondence files for: Angler's Hope, Deluxe Master's Guide, Deluxe Water Music, Henryville, Deluxe Henryville, Deluxe Megalops, Marquesa 3rd ptg, Stephen Sloan, Carmichael, Sea Level

Box 12: MRP files: production and sales correspondence re: Huntsman in the South, Megalops, Dimock, Spruce Creek (incl. signed contract), American Shad (incl. ALS from McPhee, contract with FSG signed by J. Galassi); Schwiebert deluxe, Spencer Churchill (production)

Box 13: MRP files: Bonefish, Deluxe Bonefish, George Reiger (includes typescript for Silver King), Silver King, correspondence, sales & invoices

Box 14: MRP files: Thomas McGuane (Live Water production, 6 ALS McGuane to WDT, 3 ALS from Dan Daly with 2 drawings); Biscotti, American Sporting Books (editorial, production & sales correspondence, incl. typescript foreword by Gene Hill); David Swanson; Garrison Carmichael, (production & sales, 1998 ed., incl. camera ready copy for title page); Izaak Walton (production, etc.); Sloan/Prosek Deluxe; West of Key West Deluxe (production, sales, typescript of intro by Hawk Pollard, ALS from John Rice re: artwork)

Box 15: WDT WRITINGS: A Ram's Life; Surfing; NJ Countryside; Lambing; Equestrian; Aloft; Mennonite Barn; Making Hay; Bicycle Fishing; Country Music; Blue notes from an Indian Summer; also Bicycling related materials

Box 16: Patricia Trego, From Chocolate Mousse to Carrot Juice, 1988, 2 file copies; MRP overrun: Caught on the Fly, sewn & trimmed sheets (13); Marquesa, last gathering (multiple copies); also a set of sewn & trimmed sheets of Leiser, The Dettes

Box 17: from MRP Flat files: [Cole, John] Summer's Tarpon by A. Rusty Rat, original unpublished typescript & correspondence; [Cole, John] Summer's Salmon by A. Rusty Rat, proofs, set of f&gs, original pencils by John Swan for chapter headings; trial bindings (10); correspondence with James Prosek re: illus for Sloan; Izaak Walton f&gs; extra 3D glasses; shad photos; Fishing Zone 356, 1/2/99, air tape Schwiebert/Henryville; Boone & Crockett Fair Chase 1998, article on Biscotti (4 copies)

Box 18: from MRP flat files: Schwiebert, Henryville, proofs; Keith Russell, photocopy submission typescript of The Salmoniac, 2002; Victor Johnson, photocopy submission typescript of History of Fly Lines in America, 2003; Sloan, Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here, proofs, bluelines, CD-Rom; Swanson, Water Music, file copy of trade ed.; Cardenas, ALS re: color prints; Brown, Role Casting, typescript, 13 pp.; Izaak Walton f&gs; stamping dies for Izaak Walton & Water Music; [Unidentified artist], twelve etchings of flies, titled & signed JHS

Box 19: from MRP flat files: Sea level production materials; Marquesa camera ready copy; trial binding, original illustrations by A.D. Tinkham, stamping dies, portfolio, & ephemera; Swanson Water Music deluxe signature sheets (extras); MRP ephemera, including extras of Wetzel labels, Wetzel portrait photos in glassine, Ed Shenk flies (in tin); Connett, My Friend the Trout, camera ready & production materials

Box 20: from MRP flat files: Sea Level production materials, f&gs, photos of Cardenas and others, ephemera, CD of Sloan radio interview; Marquesa, 5 sets f&gs (1 loose in trial case binding), ephemera; C.D. Clarke, original artwork for 1995 edition of Dimock, with f&gs; Diane Peebles, original pencil drawing of leaping tarpon, signed dP, frontispiece for Fish of My Years, and original art for chapter headings; proof, transparencies & disks for 1997 MRP catalogue; original photo of Wetzel plus a few gatherings of 1950 ed.; other production materials; Keckeissen, Roger G. duplicated submission typescript of Catskill Innkeeper. Art Flick and the Westkill Tavern Club, with ALS, 2004

Box 21: from MRP flat files: Schwiebert, Henvryville, disk & bluelines; Biscotti, Bibliography, f&gs, ephemera, reviews, signing at Holland & Holland; Garrison & Carmichael, 1997 ed, f&gs; Swanson, production materials & photos; Spencer Churchill, Tarpon Fishing, f&gs loose in trial case binding, slipcase

Box 22: MRP ephemera & production materials (multiples of review flyers, etc)

Box 23: MRP production materials : Tosh Brown, The Thing about Tarpon, original typescript, marked for corrections, plus second draft typescript, Oct. 2000, marginal notes in pencil, final draft typescript, titled Megalops, 24 Oct. 2000 with pencil notes (published 2001); Swanson, Water Music, 4 copies duplicated typescript, marked, plus setting copy; Swanson, Water Music, 3 sets page proofs, marked; Cardenas, Sea Level, 2 sets marked typescripts, with notes for copy-editing; Sea Level, file copies of review in Gray's Sporting Journal; A Fishing Trip, or: What They Didn't Teach Me about Fly-Fishing at Harvard Law School, 2 bound duplicated typescripts (204 pp. & unpaginated shorter version); envelope with 2 ANS from James Prosek and a digital color print of Brook Trout painting with sheets of Marcus Hummon, Catch and Release (angling verse); correspondence/proof re: Spruce Brook Club; book proposal from John Cole, Saltwater's Finest Angling, 1996; R. Swanson, Record Atlantic Salmon, bound proofs.

Box 24: MRP production materials : Cardenas, correspondence with WDT, January 2002 on, re: Sea Level, bound duplicated typescript marked uncorrected proof, copy edited setting typescript, marked page proofs; Paul Ford, typescripts of Beloved Waters, 1998, and 1999 (final), with sample illustrations (photos); Thanatopfish, setting copy, proofs, production materials & discs; Biscotti, Antonacci Genealogy, laser printed typescript (proof); Peter Corbin, transparencies for Reiger slipcase art; Sloan, Fly FIshing, dummy case & untrimmed f&gs; dummy binding, [American Shad]; Starlight Creek, dummy binding & slipcase (soiled).

Box 25: MRP Production materials : Megalops, proofs, dummy bindings, trial case & slipcase, reviews; Tosh Brown, Megalops, deluxe, copy no. 1; Swanson, Water Music, deluxe ed., copy no. 2; 7 trial mounts for Henryville Special fly (all signed by Schwiebert on the mount); dummy binding for McGuane, Live Water; 2 copies, Connett, My Friend the Trout, MRP reprint (slipcases soiled); extra case, Water Music

Box 26: R. Swanson, Grand Cascapedia Giants, setting proofs & production material; Corbett Davis, The Deadly Reef, duplicated typescript, submission copy (1998), with note from John N. Cole; MRP receipts & files, 2006; paper & binding samples, press materials

Box 27: MRP promotional flyers & mailers + 27A half dozen extra trial slipcases + 3 boxes MRP slipcase labels 27B (SIlver King) 27C (Summer's Salmon) & 27D promotional materials

OVERSIZE

BOX A) John Rice, original watercolor illustration for Biscotti; John Rice, original watercolor illustrations, salt water fish December 1996, for West of Key West (1997); John Rice, original watercolor illustration of bighorn sheep for Biscotti, 1997; John Rice, leaping tarpon, grisaille watercolor; John Swan, leaping Salmon (pencil), framed; Peter Corbin, leaping Tarpon, pencil '92, framed (Silver King, 1992); Peter Corbin, two framed prints, ea. no. 3/100, sgd. by the artist, images used for slipcases of Bonefish and Silver King; Terri Amig, framed watercolor, sgd., by artist for deluxe ed. of Dimock; Poster for Starlight Creek Angling Society (10); Poster for Live Water, John Swan (10); Poster for Summer's Salmon, John Swan (10); Poster for Marquesa, A.D. Tinkham (10); poster for Izaak Walton, sgd by artist; Gene Hill hunting broadside with art by Gordie Allen, inscr. to WDT; production materials for illus for Summer's Salmon; untrimmed dust jacket for Garrison; color separations for MRP brochures.