SALMON AND SEA TROUT : HOW TO PROPAGATE, PRESERVE, AND CATCH THEM IN BRITISH WATERS
London, England: George Routledge & Sons, 1898. Various. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with black lettering with gilt (faded) decorations to front board: a fish, a housefly, several moths, a flower, a conch, a rose and a nest of birds eggs. One of Routledge's Country Books series. Routledge colophon to title page. Rubbing to extremities and corners nudged. two pages of advertisements, followed by half-title, title page. With 69 illustrations by Mrs. Graham-Moir, E.F.T. Bennett, the author, and others, including photographs, drawings, four full-color chromolithographs of sundry flies, and a fold-out chart. Chapters include "The Present Condition and Prospects of Salmon Angling in Great Britain; Equipment; The Art of Salmon-Fishing; Killing a Salmon; Salmon Flies (2 Chapters); Fly-Dressing; Salmon-Trout Fishing; Natural History of the Salmon; Reproduction of Salmon -- Natural and Artificial, followed by four appendices, and an index, and concluding with another two pages of index. 272 pp. Very Good Minus. Item #75817
This title Volume IV of The Angler's Library, edited by The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. and F.G. Aflalo. "In preparing this volume on salmon and sea trout fishing, the editors have kept in view the purpose rather to present the experience of a practical angler, and the conclusions founded thereon, than to retail the precepts and instructions prescribed by other writers...Every statement in this book -- every article in equipment described -- every pattern of fly described -- is given, except where otherwise specified, on the author's actual knowledge of them, and every theory suggested is founded on personal observation. Quotations have been admitted only where they tend to corroborate the views put forward, not from any disrespect to those who hold other opinions, but to avoid swelling the volume beyond a convenient size..." (from Preface). Also published in New York by E.P. Dutton.
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