AN OPEN CREEL. By H.T. Sheringham. First edition.

1910 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppxii,305 + 31pp publisher's catalogue. Binding C. Red cloth with title and fishing tackle design on spine printed in black (or dark brown, and title and design of three small fishes on upper board blind-stamped. Blind rules outer edge of upper board. Top edge plain.

"One of the best and most amusing angling writers of all time." Chapters include; waters of youth; a Yorkshire beck; dace-fishing at Isleworth; the angler's temper; some Kennet days; dry-fly meditations; a basket on All Fools'; a Welsh carp lake; the float; a day of tribulation; the path of good intentions; days at Driffield; imperfect sympathies; hot days on the Avon; mayfly on a Surrey stream; the philosophy of failure; on the Gloucestershire Coln (sic) - Bibury, Fairford; the incalculable grayling; November on the Till; in praise of chub; a day on Chalkley's; the autumn salmon; a run of luck; weir-pools; triangles - a pike-fisher's lament; on a storm-swept pike pool; the secret of the canal; the Norfolk Broads; the angler and the bridge; Blagdon; two Colne (sic) trout; about the author.