A CENTURY OF CARP FISHING. By Chris Ball, Kevin Clifford and Tim Paisley.

2000 1st edition. 4to (192 x 247mm). Ppviii,336. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Dust-wrapper illustration by John Searl.

A well-illustrated record of the growth of carp fishing through the twentieth century, right up to the smashing of many European records in the last years of the century. Other contributors include Fred J. Taylor, Tony Davies-Patrick, Simon Crow, John Carver, Julian Cundiff, Paul Selman, Frank Warwick and Richard Morris. Not one of the first 400 copies with all the colour plates bound in together at the back of the book, but this copy is signed by both Tim Paisley and Chris Ball.