Crown octavo, illustrations, contemporary gift plate (dated December 1879) on front paste-down, brown china clay endpapers, edges uncut, bound with 32pp. publisher's advertisements (October 1879) in original light blue cloth (decorated with green waterlilies on the front board) with (bright) gilt on spine, slightly flecked but an uncommonly crisp copy.
First edition.

Issued in late 1879 but post-dated on the title-page – then a standard practice among British publishers. See Findlay, Freshwater Fishing Australia, no. 173 (July/Aug 2022), pp. 82-83, for a discussion of variant bindings.

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Bookseller: Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 270
Title: Travel and Trout in the Antipodes
Author: Senior, William
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1880 [but 1879]
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Australian Fishing Books;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....