ATLANTIC SALMON FISHING. By Charles Phair. Illustrated by Ogden M. Pleissner and Robert Nisbet, N.A. and from photographs, drawings and maps.

(1937) 1995 new edition. Large 4to (232 x 310mm). Pp198. Colour plates by Ogden Pleissner, b/w plates, illustrations, large folding map. Red cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt with gilt salmon roundel.

"Originally published by The Derrydale Press in 1937, Charles Phair's classic work is still considered the best book on Atlantic salmon fishing ever published. Heir to a ...fortune, Phair devoted his adult life to salmon fishing throughout the world." Chapters include: Salmon water - how to find it and obtain rights to it; Selection of guides; Tackle and rods; Flies and their uses; Casting; Fishing the wet fly; Fishing the dry fly; Greased line fishing; Weather; A month's salmon fishing trip; Life history; Improving, protecting and stocking salmon rivers together with etiquette and customs - this chapter covers the history of the Restigouche as an angling water, incidentally to the main topic; Salmon fly dressings; The Atlantic salmon rivers of [North] America - Quebec, the island of Anticosti in that province (3,000 square miles, pop. 281), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Maine.