FISHERMAN'S PIE: AN ANGLING SYMPOSIUM. Edited by W.A. Hunter.

(1926) 1929 2nd edition. Small 8vo (140 x 200mm). Ppxvi,244,ads. B/w photographs & illustrations. Grey cloth - Binding A. Blue-grey, spine titled in gilt, spine & upper board illustrated in black.

A collection of articles on fishing by the authorities of the time including J.W. Dunne, A.H.E. Wood, H.T. Sheringham, G.G. Heywood, J.A. Hutton, T.E. Pryce-Tannatt, Ernest Crosfield and T.E. Donne. They range though various tactics for salmon, sea-trout and trout and include chapters on spinning for pike, float-fishing in the "Nottingham" style, fishing in New Zealand, and two chapters on Blagdon Lake. The Introduction is by Rafael Sabatini. "On the whole this second edition is very similar to the first, but there are three additional chapters on Worm fishing for Trout from the North country point of view; Loch Fishing; and Striking with the Dry Fly. ...made all the more delightful by the addition of some charming sketches by Mr. J. Lamorna Birch." (Game & Gun, September 1929).