FISHING FOR PLEASURE AND CATCHING IT. By E. Marston, F.R.G.S. (The Amateur Angler) and two chapters on angling in North Wales by R.B. Marston.

1906 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 195mm). Ppxiii,152. Illustrated with b/w plates from paintings and photographs, text, illustration, chapter head vignettes. Light green decorated cloth, upper board titled in dark green, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt.

Reminiscences of fishing the Lugg and Ithon, Conway and Lledr, and of sport and natural history in Canada at the beginning of the last century. Chapters include: Mayfly fishing in Herefordshire in 1903; "Hampshire days"; On the Ithon (a scramble in the woods); On the Stour; Lolling and loafing; More big chub; "The school of the woods"; Unexpected difficulties; Mayfly fishing in Herefordshire in 1905; Among the rainbows; "A little brother to the bear"; The fish and the ring and other scraps for Christmas; How Hiawatha slew the "King of fishes"; Our holiday in North Wales; Some notes on salmon and trout fishing in North Wales by R.B. Marston; Days on the Lledr and Conway.