ANGLING FOR PIKE: A PRACTICAL WORK ON ALL THE MOST SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF SPINNING, LIVE-BAITING, etc., FAVOURED BY PRESENT-DAY SPORTSMEN. By John Bickerdyke. Ninth edition, Entirely revised by A. Courtney Williams. Fully illustrated.

(1888) ND (c.1936) 9th edition. Small 8vo paperback (123 x 182mm). Pp86 + 2pp ads. B/w illustrations. Wrappers printed in black and white and pale blue. Price 1s. 6d.

This formed part of "The book of the all-round angler", but was kept updated by later editors. "John Bickerdyke" was the pen-name of Charles Henry Cook. In the preface to this ninth edition, the editor, A. Courtney Williams, states that the book "...called for no great amount of revision except in those chapters dealing with the angler's tackle. The gear used to-day has been so enormously improved since the first edition of this book appeared that whilst following the author's ideas as far as possible it has been necessary to rewrite this section almost completely, adding observations on some of the modern day methods of catching pike (such as light casting or thread-line fishing) and omitting others which have fallen into disfavour."