FISHING: SALMON AND TROUT. By H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, with contributions from other authors. [A volume in] The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson.

(1885) 1889 5th edition revised. Small 8vo (145 x 193mm). Ppxviii,481 + 2pp ads. Engraved frontispiece, text engravings. Binding B. Decorative brown cloth, printed in black, blue, white and gilt, with design of a sportsman's study on upper board, uniform with other titles in the series.

For many years the bible of game fishermen. This fifth edition contains eight additional full page illustrations by Charles Whymper, and Conway Lloyd-Jones, and "upwards of a hundred new explanatory woodcuts are introduced." Also, the tackle chapter has been almost entirely re-written and F.M. Halford has added to the chapter on chalkstream dry fly fishing. Chapters include:- On hooks, tackle, and fishing gear by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell; Natural history of British salmonidae by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell; Salmon-fishing with the fly - also a few notes on fly-fishing for sea trout by Major John P. Traherne; Fly-fishing for trout and grayling, or 'Fine and Far Off' by Henry Ralph Francis, M.A; Chalk-stream fishing with the dry fly, and may-fly fishing by H.S. Hall and Frederic M. Halford; Spinning and bait-fishing for salmon and trout by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell; The grayling, and bait-fishing for by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell; Salmon and trout culture by Thomas Andrews.