RIVER ANGLING FOR SALMON AND TROUT, by John Younger, with a Memoir of the Author; together with a Treatise on the Salmon, and a List of the Tweed Salmon-casts.

(1840) 1864 3rd edition. 16mo (110 x 160mm). xii pp + 220 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Modern quarter leather binding, raised bands, gilt fishing blockings on spine, marbled boards.

Younger's salmon fly patterns pre-date those of Scrope (1843), and represent the classic old Tweed flies. For this edition the editor has excluded "Some fresh hints". . . and the "Analysis of theTweed Fishery Act," (from the 1860 edition) but has added two new chapters: "Worms and worm-angling, by the editor;" and "Scrap, by the editor". This latter consists of notes on water insects, and short biographies of two noted Border anglers, Jock Smail and James Baillie.