IN THE GREEN LEAF AND THE SERE. BY A SON OF THE MARSHES. Edited by J.A. Owen.

1896 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 218mm). Ppvii,288. B/w plates and illustrations. Red cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt spine titles.

A very readable book on British natural history with one chapter on rough shooting and another on angling titled 'Pike, perch, bream, and roach'. The illustrations are by G.C. Haite and D.C. Nicholl. Denham Jordan wrote numerous books and articles under the pseudonym, "A Son of the Marshes". He was a house-painter by profession, was born in Milton Regis (Milton-next-Sittingbourne) in Kent and moved to Dorking when he was a teenager, living there for the rest of his life. The places mentioned in his books are always disguised, Longshore Drift (1898) was his only book where he used real place-names, and that by public demand.