ANGLING IN AMERICA: ITS EARLY HISTORY AND LITERATURE. By Charles Eliot Goodspeed.

(1939) 1996 FFCL edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,381. B/w plates. Fully bound in grey bonded leather, gilt FFCL motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt, silk marker ribbon, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. Off-white cloth-bound slipcase. Edition limited to 500 copies.

"... A definitive work of the period... excellent history of angling in America, and fine short bibliography... very scarce." (Bruns). First published in 1939 in a limited edition of 750 copies. Chapters include: Sport in embryo; Richard Franck, Philanthropus; The Schuylkill Fishing Company; The first American book on angling; Angling in the Eighteenth Century; Early fishing clubs; Old angling practices; Angling literature before 1850; Bethune and The Compleat Angler; The North Woods and Long Island; Rangeley; Fishing books of the sixties; Brook-trout and black bass; Salmo salar and Salmo sebago; Some modern fishing books; Notes on tackle; Fish tales; Presidents and collectors. An appendix gives a check-list of American angling publications.