ANGLERS' FISHES and THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXXIV. By Eric Taverner.

1957 1st edition (re-issue). 8vo (139 x 223mm). Pp284,ii[ads]. B/w photographs and illustrations. Plain grey boards.

"The life of fishes and those creatures upon which they are dependent and the natural conditions governing their world". Chapters include: Some fishes and their distribution; The salmon; The brown or resident trout; The seatrout; The grayling; The steelhead and the rainbow trout; The carps; Perch and pike; Anatomical; Fins and locomotion; Distinction of species, etc; Aquatic vision; The other special senses; Coloration and disguise; Reproduction in some fishes; May-flies, sedge-flies and stone-flies; Other four-winged insects; Some two-winged flies; Higher crustaceans and crustaceans of the plankton; Freshwater snails; Some notes on migration; Aquatic vegetation; Predators; Water - lakes and rivers, food chain; Regulation of stock.