Speckled Trout by John Burroughs       

Offset lithograph, 43 pencil drawings, 2 watercolor & 1 birch bark collage Deluxe edition includes 2 color wood cuts and an engraving. Bound in a handmade paper with birch bark label.

1998               Edition of 300            9 x 7”              Deluxe $600     Standard $65

Speckled Trout by John Burroughs is richly illustrated by Steven C. Daiber with 43 pencil drawings, 2 watercolors of trout and a Birch bark collage.  This edition is limited to 300 books. The first 30 are a special edition to include a hand colored woodcut. Speckled Trout is hand bound in a Black Walnut dyed paper.

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“The newest artist-bookmaker, and surely one of the most original and unique, is Steven Daiber.

. . . a treasure for serious collectors.”       Nick Lyons, Lyons Publishing, New York, NY

“Burroughs captures to perfection the true flavor of old-time roughing it, replete with clouds of black flies, spates of rain, trackless woods, cold nights, rough bark shelters, and literally bags of fresh-caught brookies. Daiber’s tough but delicate artwork enhances the account with haunting images so vivid you can almost smell the wood smoke . . . a slim, virile, handsome book no serious collector of angling literature should be without.” Robert F. Jones

The trout is dark and obscure above, but behind this foil there are wondrous tints that reward the believing eye. Those that seek him in his wild remote haunts are quite sure to get the full force of the somber and uninviting aspects—the wet, the cold, the toil, the broken rest and the huge savage, uncompromising nature, etc. But the true angler sees farther than these, and is never thwarted of his legitimate reward by them.

John Burroughs

Speckled Trout first appeared in the October 1870 issue of Atlantic Monthly and again in 1879 in a collection of essays- Locusts and Wild Honey. John Burroughs was an American naturalist, completing 23 volumes of essays of nature writing. His career spanned a friendship with Walt Whitman in Washington DC during the Civil War to camping trips with Roosevelt, Edison and Muir in the first decades of the 20th century.