FROM AN ANGLER'S JOURNAL. VOLUME ONE. By Ian Watson. Designed and produced by Martin Mumby. De luxe leather-bound edition.

# 2009 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 215mm). Not paginated. Illustrated throughout with colour paintings by the author and colour photographs, silk marker ribbon. Fully bound in dark green leather, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers, dark green cloth slipcase. De luxe leather-bound edition limited to 40 copies.

# "...this book is unique in angling in that it is published in facsimile form - that is to say, Ian's original hand-written pages have been reproduced exactly as they were written. Some of his sketches and water-colours, produced contemporaneously with his journal pages, have beenreproduced, too." (From the Introduction by Jim Gibbinson). An attractively produced reproduction of angling diaries, beautifully written and illustrated by hand. The author is well-known in the world of carp fishing, corresponding with Dick Walker and Jim Gibbinson and fishing Redmire Pool. However, his fishing interests were much wider than just carp, and much of the content is on pike and coarse fishing, Blagdon pike and trout, and salmon in Scotland and on the River Wye. The period covered is from May 1987 to 2006. This is a copy of the de luxe leather-bound edition that was limited to only 40 copies. It sold out quickly after publication.