THE BOOK OF THE PISCATORIAL SOCIETY 1836 - 1936.
1936 1st edition. 4to (185 x 256mm). Ppix,128. Colour frontispiece, b/w plates after John Leech and from photographs. Green faux-morocco, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt vignette to upper board, bevelled boards, top edge gilt.
Compiled under the editorship of Sir Robert Saundby, the President of the Society. It was initially intended that H.T. Sheringham would write this history, but he died before even starting on it. Nevertheless this volume contains six chapters by Sheringham, three of them papers read before the Society and previously unpublished. P.M.B. Hammond contributed the bulk of the text, with the aid of C.S. Gerrish, who also supplied the chapter on stocking and management. There is one anonymous chapter on "Famous Piscatorials. By an Ordinary Member".
Compiled under the editorship of Sir Robert Saundby, the President of the Society. It was initially intended that H.T. Sheringham would write this history, but he died before even starting on it. Nevertheless this volume contains six chapters by Sheringham, three of them papers read before the Society and previously unpublished. P.M.B. Hammond contributed the bulk of the text, with the aid of C.S. Gerrish, who also supplied the chapter on stocking and management. There is one anonymous chapter on "Famous Piscatorials. By an Ordinary Member".
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21892
| Author | Hammond (Peter Mark Barkly), Saundby (R.H.M.S.), Sheringham (H.T.) and Gerrish (C. Stratton). |
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| Book Code | 21892 |
| ISBN | B000YLKQNQ. |
| Book Description | Slight wrinkling of end-papers. Good-plus. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1936 |
| Publisher | The Piscatorial Society. |
| Place | London. |