FISHING AT HOME and ABROAD. Edited by The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.

1913 1st edition. Royal 4to (275 x 327mm). Ppxii,414. Colour plates, b/w photograph plates, illustrations, silk marker ribbon. Fully bound in crushed brown gilt-ruled Morocco, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies.

A spectacular book with no expense spared in its production. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure portrait of King George V, with 7 coloured plates (including 2 of salmon flies and five of fish), 5 monochrome, 5 photogravure and 43 half-tone (photographs), 7 of the plates by Ernest Briggs, printed descriptive tissue-guards. xii pp + 414 pp. Bound in full brown Levant morocco, titled in gilt on spine and upper board, gilt panels on spine, printed on hand-made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Royal 4to. Original price 10 guineas. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Contents include:- Preliminary by Sir Herbert Maxwell; The Atlantic salmon by Sir Herbert Maxwell; The salmon angler's outfit by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Salmon flies by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Tyee fishing at Campbell River, British Columbia by Nigel Bourke; Sea trout fishing by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Trout fishing by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Trout fishing in New Zealand by C.E. Lucas; Char by Sir Herbert Maxwell; The grayling by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Salmon and trout fishing in Canada by E.T.D. Chambers; American trout fishing by Theodore Gordon; The pike and pike fishing by R.B. Marston; The perch and perch-fishing by R.B. Marston; Carp and carp-fishing by R.B. Marston; The crucian carp by R.B. Marston; The chub and chub-fishing by R.B. Marston; The bream by R.B. Marston; The barbel by R.B. Marston; Tench and tench fishing by R.B. Marston; The roach and rudd by R.B. Marston; The dace by R.B. Marston; Small fry by R.B. Marston; Hybrids by R.B. Marston; Fishing in the east by H.S. Thomas; Sea fishing, general principles of. by F.G. Aflalo; The tarpon by F.G. Aflalo; The tuna, or tunny by F.G. Aflalo; The bass by F.G. Aflalo; The pollack, coalfish and sea bream by F.G. Aflalo; The grey mullet by F.G. Aflalo; The mackerel by F.G. Aflalo; The conger eel by F.G. Aflalo; The "coarse fish" of the sea by F.G. Aflalo; Sharks, dogfish and skate by F.G. Aflalo; On the map, at home by F.G. Aflalo; On the map, abroad by F.G. Aflalo.