FISH FACTS AND FANCIES. By F. Gray Griswold.

1926 1st edition thus. 8vo (148 x 208mm). Ppxii,242. Colour lithograph of the "Griswold Gray" salmon fly to title page, b/w photographs. Olive paper-covered boards. green cloth spine, titled in gilt on spine and upper board.

A comprehensive account of North American Atlantic salmon, their biology as well as breeding them artificially. Includes much on flyfishing for salmon, tackle, line, flies and a section on multiplying reels. Part II deals with tarpon, marlin, tuna in the Mediterranean and a chapter on the eel. Originally privately published as two separate volumes (1923 and 1925). this combined edition has been revised and enlarged and contains extracts from W.L. Calderwood's "The Artificial and Natural Breeding of the Salmon". Limited to just one thousand copies - 750 for America and 250 for Great Britain.