THE BOOK OF FISHES: 1952 EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED... Edited by John Oliver La Gorce, Litt.D., D.Sc.

(1939) 1952 2nd edition. 4to (176 x 260mm). Ppxii,,339,ad. Colour paintings, colour and b/w photographs. Buckram-backed cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

"... presenting the better-known food and game fishes and the aquatic life of the coastal and inland waters of the United States". Many good colour reproductions of paintings of fish as well as many good photographs both colour and b/w. Fish by fish description which has a definite slant towards fishing, both sporting and commercial. Includes articles on industries now gone, or nearly gone, such as dory fishing from Portuguese cod schooners and beach netting between Nova Scotia's huge tides.