NOTES AND REMINISCENCES OF MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER. By William Henderson, F.R.Hist.Soc. With an appendix containing a description of the caves of Adelsberg and the Proteus Anguinus. For private circulation only.

1876 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 203mm). Ppxiv,324. Engraved plates. Red-brown blind-ruled cloth, spine titled in gilt.

A classic Victorian memoir. "William Henderson's book is a richly entertaining account of fishing adventures, mostly in the North (the author was a carpet manufacturer from Durham) on such rivers as the Wear, Coquet and Tweed. Henderson knew some legendary fly-tyers of the time, including John Younger, the St Boswells shoemaker and author, James Wright of Sprouston (to whom we owe the "Greenwell's Glory" among other historic patterns), and Percival S. Wilkinson, whose famous salmon fly was regarded for years as the essential Tweed medicine." (Flyfisher's Classic Library).