GAME FISH RECORDS. By Jock Scott.

1936 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 225mm). Ppxii,316. Illustrated with 24 b/w plates (8 after cartoons from Punch, the rest from photographs, b/w frontispiece photograph of Ernest Crosfield's flies). Light green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Price 12s. 6d.

A fascinating compendium of information, particularly about record salmon, trout and big game fish. Detailed records of game fish in England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia. Big game records from New Zealand and Tasmania, Canada and Newfoundland, the United States, and South Africa. It includes six excellent essays on famous anglers and their catches: Ernest Crosfield, D.J.W. Edwardes, Alexander Grant, Zane Grey, George Mortimer Kelson and Percy Laming (the author quotes extensively from the diaries of Crosfield and Edwardes). "Jock Scott" was the pen-name of D.G. Ferris Rudd.