THE COMPLETE SCIENCE OF FLY FISHING AND SPINNING. By Fred. G. Shaw, F.G.S.

(1914) 1920 2nd edition. 8vo (155 x 235mm). 4 pp testimonials + xiv pp + 432 pp + 20 pp advertisements. Colour frontispiece by T.C. Target, b/w photographs, plates and text figures. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt vignettes to spine and upper board.

A complete handbook for trout and salmon fishing with a great emphasis on the science of fly casting- lots of good old photographs of fishing and casting and lots of interesting old adverts. "...I am generally considered as being the pioneer of the stiff wrist theory, by means of which I have perfected the casting of thousands of people."