SALTWATER GAME FISHES OF THE WORLD: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Bob Dunn and Peter Goadby. Leather-bound limited edition.

2000 1st edition. Folio. Ppxiii,292. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Full leather gilt, tipped-on plate, slipcase.

This is a history - not a modern how-to-do-it book. A wonderful, extraordinarily comprehensive work on the the early naturalists, the game fish species, and the early writers on saltwater gamefishing and their books. Lavishly illustrated from old paintings and early photographs. Includes a whole chapter on early salt water game fishing books*. This is the de luxe edition fully bound in black leather gilt with a colour plate tipped on to the upper board, silk marker ribbon, all edges gilt and presented in a matching black slipcase. This edition was limited to 500 individually numbered copies. This copy has been signed by both authors.