FINE ANGLING FOR COARSE FISH: The Lonsdale Library Vol. IV. By Eric Parker and others.

(1930) 1947 reprint. 8vo (150 x 220mm). Pp352. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Gilt monogram to buckram-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Chapters by Eric Parker, J.H.R. Bazley, Antony Bridges, Edward Ensom ("Faddist"), F.H. Heald, Stephen Hill, A.E. Hobbs, J.A. Milne, J.C. Moore, A.J. Rudd, Eric Taverner, Dr W.J. Turrell, F.W.K. Wallis and Alban Bacon. Turrell's "Pike fishing" and Ensom's "Roach and dace fishing" were reprinted from this book. F.W.K. Wallis' chapter, "The modern light float cast from the reel: Nottingham style," is of particular interest. "...covers all the coarse fish and almost every aspect of coarse fish angling, not excluding dry-fly fishing, scale-reading and fishery management. It has been termed the 'coarse-fish angler's Bible' and is lavishly illustrated. This book contains a masterly chapter on 'The Literature of Coarse Fishing'." ("Faddist" in 'Angling' magazine, Winter 1941). Chapters include: The literature of coarse fishing, Eric Parker; The roach (7 chapters), Edward Ensom ("Faddist"); The dace, Edward Ensom; The perch, Edward Ensom; The rudd, Antony Bridges; The tench, Stephen E. Hill; The bream, Edward Ensom; Gudgeon, bleak and pope, Edward Ensom; The carp, Steven E. Hill; The barbel, A. Edward Hobbs; The chub, Edward Ensom; The pike; Pike fishing (2 chapters), Dr. W.J. Turrell; The eel, Eric Parker; Dry fly fishing for coarse fish, Edward Ensom; Knots and splices, wax and varnish, Eric Taverner; The modern light float cast from the reel Nottingham style, F.W.K. Wallis; Broadland fishing, A.J. Rudd (Clerk to the Norfolk Fishery Board); How to make the best of a bad river, John C. Moore; Match fishing, J.H.R. Bazley; Coarse fish scales, J.A. Milne; Fishery management, F.H. Heald (Clerk to the Trent Fishery Board); The legal aspect of fishing, Capt. Alban F. Bacon.