THE FISHERMAN'S COMPANION. Edited by Kenneth Mansfield.

1968 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp448. Illustrated with text engravings taken from early editions of Walton's Compleat Angler, March's Jolly Angler and Hofland's British Angler's Manual. Pale olive end-papers. Red cloth, black spine label titled in silver-gilt.

A good collection of angling stories and verse, much of which has not been previously seen in anthologies, and with material by a number of literary figures seldom quoted in fishing books - including John Donne, Alexander Pope, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rupert Brooke.