THE ANGLER AND THE TROUT. By Huish Edye (Distoffer).

1941 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppx,171. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Reminiscences and sound advice on fishing for trout and seatrout on the chalkstreams and the rivers and brooks of the West Country. "If those who should read this book do so, its sale will be prodigious... dyed-in-the-wool purists will find much to stir their one-track minds." (Angling, July-September 1941). Chapters include: Anglers and anglers; The angler's gear; The angler's fly-box; Anglers' mentality; A trout season in retrospect; A day retrieved; The mannerisms of big trout; Angler's make-believe; Sermons in books; Anglers' manners; Before the rise; Trout time is cuckoo time; A fishing diary and some reflections; When is a fly not a fly?; Stock and stocking; Peal; Errors and omissions excepted.