Wagstaff Copy

Westminster Kennel Club

Illustrated with four plates and a map. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. One of 100 numbered copies, reproducing the original edition of 1886. This copy no. 8, for Mr. David Wagstaff. Pale brown gilt-stamped cloth, decorative endpapers. Front hinge open at first leaf of text, else fine.

Connett's fine facsimile of the 1886 year book of the Westminster Kennel Club, established in Babylon, Long Island, in 1877. "An extremely rare and hard-to-get Derrydale" - Frazier David Wagstaff (1883-1951), Harvard class of 1905, was a noted sportsman and bibliophile. Siegel writes, "One of America's most prominent sporting book collectors, Mr. Wagstaff was a member of the Grolier Club, and Curator of Sporting Books at Yale University. He was a noted judge and authority on sporting dogs and a member of the Westminster Kennel Club and the Restigouche Salmon Club" (Siegel). He contributed an introduction to The English Springer Spaniel in America (1930) and a chapter to Connett's Upland Game Bird Shooting in America. An uncommon Derrydale with excellent provenance Siegel 32; Frazier W-6-a.

Item #243318       Price: $2,500.00