FISH FARMING: FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. By "Practical". Fully illustrated from photographs and drawings by the author.

1903 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Ppxvii,153 + 5pp ads. B/w photographs, illustrations and diagrams by the author, patterned end-papers. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

"Practical" was the pen-name of Edgar S. Shrubsole. Chapters include: Natural and artificial redds; The formation of ponds and lakes; Screens and sluices; Water supply and aeration; Natural food: aquatic plants, etc; Stocking; Rainbow, and other foreign trout; Fish passes; Spawning; How to make a hatchery; Incubation and hatching; Care of alevins and young fry; Some additional remarks concerning rearing fry and yearlings; A few concluding remarks.