THE MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. By Alexander Wanless.

1931 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 192mm). Pp168,8pp ads. Colour plates of flies and materials, b/w photographs, illustrations. Green cloth, ruled and titled in black on spine and upper board, uniform with other Herbert Jenkins titles.

Mostly threadlining techniques but includes a lot on Andrew Holmes' dry flies and tying techniques. Chapters include: Equipment; Thread-line worm fishing; Stalking with the worm; Float fishing with worm; Spinning; Bobbing the minnow; Artificial fly fishing; Fly-dressing; Andrew Holmes' dry flies; Other thread line methods; Night fishing; Alternatives in loch fishing.