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

1957 1st edition (re-issue). 8vo (137 x 222mm). Pp284,ii[ads]. B/w photographs and illustrations. Plain grey boards, spine titled in gilt.

"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.