TALES FROM THE WATER'S EDGE. By Tom Quinn.

1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 269mm). Pp181 + 1pp ad. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations throughout, pictorial end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Memories of gillies and riverkeepers, interspersed with old illustrations and articles. In series with "Tales of the old gamekeepers" etc. Chapters include: Sixty years a gillie, Joe Taylor; What went wrong? David Morris; The royal gillies, Alec Ogilvie, Jim Ewan, Charlie Wright; angling in the archives; Something of a diplomat, Tony Waites; A meticulous recorder of life, Allan Cooke; Battles with the poachers, Gordon Rogers; Angling in the archives; Enchanted by the river, Jim Smith; Fishing with Biggles, George Smith; A wonderful companion, Bernard Aldrich; angling in the archives; Riverkeeping's greatest dynasty, Mick Lunn; Fifty years a gillie, William Fraser; Rendering the streams fit, Tom Ellis.