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) ND (1905) 2nd edition. Small 8vo (135 x 190mm). Ppiv,204 + 2pp ads. B/w engravings, illustrations. Green decorative cloth printed brown and yellow*.

Volume III of "The Angler's Library", edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell and F.G.Aflalo. This Routledge's Country Books series edition omits the two full-page plates (of pike and perch) that were in the first edition*. This copy is the second issue of the 1905 edition: Green cloth not embossed but printed in brown and yellow, top edge not gilded, two pages of advertisements at rear. Some copies of this issue omit the introduction and contents pages. This is one of those copies.