REFLECTIONS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AN ANGLING LIFE. By Chris Turnbull. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2011 1st edition. De luxe issue. 4to (192 x 243mm). Pp240. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout by the author. Fully bound in jade blue leather, upper board and spine titled in white and dark blue with hooked barbel motif, handmade end-papers, silk marker ribbon, top edge speckled blue. Dark blue cloth-bound, felt-lined slipcase. Edition limited to 50 copies.

The beautifully illustrated angling autobiography of Norfolk specimen-hunter and wildlife-artist, Chris Turnbull. A very attractive book. Designed and produced by Stephen Harper. This first edition was limited to only 1000 cloth-bound copies plus 50 de luxe leather-bound copies. This is a copy of the leather-bound edition. Chapters include: The quest for a double-figure tench; The quest continues; The shallow lagoon; Lodge Farm tench; Colney tench; The jewel in the crown; The old lady of the Upper Bure; The rise and fall of Sparham Pools; Flirtations with carp; The Lotus Pool; The Princelings; Dream bream; Something different; Wensum barbel - modest beginnings; A rare Yare beast; A comedy of errors; Getting serious; Five big barbel; A big brace; Fishing in the sun; Salty excursions; The lady of the stream.