THE FLOAT. By Keith Harwood. With illustrations by Paul Cook.

2003 1st edition. Large 8vo (172 x 248mm). Pp232. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations by Paul Cook, silk marker ribbon. Green cloth with tipped-on illustration, upper board and spine titled in gilt. No dust-wrapper - as issued.

Keith Harwood has had a lifelong obsession with floats and float fishing and has put together the most complete float book ever published, covering all aspects of the history and design of this most humble piece of angling equipment. Edition limited to 499 copies of which 99 are bound in leather. Now out-of-print and very highly sought after. This is a copy of the cloth-bound edition.