HALCYON: AN ANGLER'S MEMORIES. By George Brennand. PARTRIDGES AND PARTRIDGE MANORS. By Captain Aymer Maxwell.

.# 1947 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Ppxii,198. B/w illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. Salmon cloth, spine titled in gilt.

.# "An unusually distinguished book of fishing reminiscences which will be read by others than anglers for the excellence of its prose style, its recollection of many pleasant places in England, Scotland and in Australia, and its refreshing joie de vivre". Memories of Scottish salmon fishing, English trout and seatrout, and Australian trout fishing, with mentions of Ceylon and New Zealand angling. Signature to front end-paper. Edges foxed but internally clean. Very good copy.

.# 1911 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 204mm). Ppxii,327+ii pp ads. 16 colour plates by George Rankin. Binding A: Blue-green cloth, spine and upper board illustrated and titled in gilt, top edge gilt.

.# A comprehensive account of partridge preservation, keepering, driving, shooting and natural history, written in the heyday of the great wild partridge shoots.