THE ANGLER'S COMPANION TO THE RIVERS AND LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. By Thomas Tod Stoddart. Edited with an introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt. Containing numerous plates in colour and other illustrations.

(1847) 1923 4th edition. 8vo (150 x 217mm). Ppxxvii,320 + 4pp ads. Colour plates of flies, b/w plates. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled and ruled in black.

"Thomas Tod Stoddart qualified in law but never practiced. He wrote bad poetry and excellent books about angling and fished from childhood into old age"". ...the most important and influential of all the earlier writers on Scottish angling. He was not an innovator, and expounded the traditional Scottish angling methods incomparably well and sympathetically from about 1830 onwards". (Simmonds). This edition was edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell who also wrote a new introduction. Chapters include: Fresh-water trout; Tackle, etc. etc; Fly-dressing; Trouting-flies; Trouting with the fly; On worm-fishing for trout; Trouting with the minnow and parr-tail; The salmon; Sea trout; Salmon-flies; Salmon-fishing with the fly; Salmon-fishing with parr-tail, minnow, and worm; Pike and pike-fishing; Cooking of salmon, etc; Tweed and its tributaries; Forth and its tributaries; Tay and its tributaries; Rivers of Angus and Aberdeenshire; Rivers of the Moray Firth; The Beauley and Conan; Rivers of the Dornoch Firth; Rivers of Caithness; Rivers of the north coast; Rivers of the north-west coast; The Awe, and rivers and lochs of the west coast; The Clyde, and streams of the south-west; The rivers of the Solway Firth.