FAVOURITE SWIMS AND STILLWATER PITCHES. By Fred J. Taylor. Watermeadow Books Limited Edition.

(1961) 2006 new edition. 8vo (145 x 208mm). Pp147. Sepia illustrations by John Searl. Brown cloth, spine and upper board titled and decorated in gilt, silk marker. With a new Introduction by Tim Paisley.

In this new edition, Fred has added an epilogue in which he looks back over the years to the swims and waters where he, together with Ken and Joe Taylor, developed the lift method for tench; deadbaiting for pike and recalls days they spent with giants of the angling world, Dick Walker, Peter Thomas, Billy Lane and Peter Stone. A new edition in a handsome decorated cloth binding, a new introduction by Tim Paisley and attractive sepia illustrations by John Searl. Edition limited to 540 numbered copies, of which the first 40 were bound in leather. No dust-wrapper, as published.