COLLINS NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FISHING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Edited by Michael Prichard.

1990 1st edition thus. Large 4to (233 x 305mm). Pp216. Colour photographs throughout, b/w photographs, colour paintings of fish by Dr. Dietrich Burkel, foreword by Malcolm Greenhalgh, pictures and text to end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"The fish illustrations by Dr. Dietrich Burkel and some of the diagrams and photographs appeared in the Encyclopedia of Fishing in the British Isles, first published in 1977 and reprinted, with revisions in 1982, eleven times. All other illustrations and photographs and all text are new to this book." This is an interesting introduction to angling with chapters contributed by some noted anglers, with no attempt made to sell anything to the unsuspecting reader. Includes many good colour illustrations of fish by Dietrich Burkel. Chapters are: Coarse fishing for pleasure, by Allen Edwards; Match fishing to win, by Tom Pickering; Sea fishing - boats, by Michael Prichard; Sea angling from the shore, by Alan Yates; Fly fishing for trout, by Bob Carnill; Salmon - amazing and marvellous, by Crawford Little.