PIKE AND PERCH: WITH NOTES ON RECORD PIKE AND A CHAPTER ON THE BLACK BASS, MURRAY COD AND OTHER SPORTING MEMBERS OF THE PERCH FAMILY. By Alfred Jardine. The Angler's Library Volume III.

(1897) 1898 1st edition reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 190mm). Ppxii,204 + 2pp ads. Two full-page b/w plates, text illustrations. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in black.

Volume III of "The Angler's Library", edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell and F.G. Aflalo. Westwood and Satchell gives 1898 as the first edition and most copies seem to be so dated. Since publishing Pike Anglers' Library I have seen a copy clearly dated (in Roman numerals) 1897 on the title-page. Jardine was one of the most successful pike anglers ever, with catches of large fish comparable to those of today's specimen hunters. He gave his name to the Jardine snap-tackle, popular for a century, and to the Jardine lead. He was the first in a dynasty of well-known anglers which continues to the present.