A YEAR OF LIBERTY; OR, SALMON ANGLING IN IRELAND FROM FEBRUARY 1 TO NOVEMBER 1. By W. Peard, M.D., LL.B.

1867 1st edition. 8vo (135 x 205mm). Ppxii,300,errata slip. Not illustrated. Blind-stamped dark blue-green cloth, gilt-titled on spine and upper board, uniform with others in this series. The Field Library series, Volume 4.

A discursive diary of a whole season (1865) of salmon fishing in Ireland. Volume Four of The Field Library. "Everywhere through the land salmon are on the increase, not merely as regards numbers, but also as respects size... Halcyon days are in store for the rising generation of anglers..." "This book was well and amusingly written and all the evidence suggests that its author was a careful and reliable recorder, as far as any man can be, of his angling exploits in Ireland. We can only conclude that the brown-trout fishing, particularly as regards the size of the fish taken, has deteriorated in the past eighty to ninety years." (Howell).