THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF GIANT SALMON: A RECORD OF THE LARGEST ATLANTIC SALMON EVER CAUGHT. By Fred Buller. Second edition.

(2007) 2008 2nd edition. Large 4to (210 x 276mm). Pp488. Colour and sepia photographs throughout. Silk marker ribbon. Brown boards.

Thirty years on from The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike, Fred Buller has now produced the ultimate book of huge salmon. He gives accounts of 170 fly-caught fish of over 50lb, and of 152 fish weighing over sixty pounds whether caught by fly, bait, net or poaching". This book was wonderful. It is a throwback to the golden age of British publishing. It is well written, beautifully illustrated and a joy to own. The stories of legendary catches are warm, insightful and written in a way that reminds me of Evelyn Waugh. Odd I know, but the text is, more often than not, literature". From a review in The Economist. This 2008 edition is a revised reprint with an additional appendix listing four previously unlisted fish. There are also other minor changes. This edition is eight pages longer than the first edition, and has a different (colour) photograph on the rear of the dust-wrapper.