THE ART OF ANGLING (IN THREE VOLUMES). Edited by Kenneth Mansfield.

(1957) later reprint. 4to (182 x 244mm). Ppxix,415;xviii,378;xviii,363,xxxvii. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Gilt fish motif and editor's signature to blue boards.

A heck of a lot of book for your money! Includes chapters by Dick Walker on carp fishing and rod building, bass fishing by Donovan Kelley, tunny fishing by Eric Horsfall Turner, cooking coarse, game and sea fish by Ambrose Heath. Other contributors include W.A. Adamson, L. Vernon Bates, J.A.L. Caunter, H.G.C. Claypoole, F. Cowburn, J.P. Garrad ("Seangler"), Edward Ensom ("Faddist"), F.W. Holiday, T.C. Ivens, L.A.J. Jackman, Peter Michael, L.A. Parker, B.A. Parmenter, Raymond Perrett, Rev. E. Powell, O.M. Reed, John G.Roberts, Coombe Richards, Michael Shephard, Peter Tombleson, C.F. Walker, A.L. Ward, Arthur Went and T.K. Wilson.