THE SCIENCE OF SPINNING FOR SALMON, SEA TROUT, BROWN TROUT AND GRAYLING. By Alexander Wanless.

(1930) ND (c.1932) 2nd printing. Small 8vo (130 x 192mm). Pp168 + 8pp ads. B/w photographs and line illustrations. Green cloth, ruled and titled in black on spine and upper board, uniform with other Herbert Jenkins titles.

"In view of the increasing popularity of the practice of spinning for salmon, trout and grayling, an exhaustive and authoritative work on this subject will prove a valuable addition to angling literature. Mr. Alexander Wanless, in The Science of Spinning for Salmon and Trout, has dealt very fully with this branch of the angler's art, and his book should prove a standard work on Spinning - thereis at present no volume of the kind in existence. The book includes a great deal of entirely new material (and Mr. Wanless has not wasted time and space on the elementary points which every angler knows), but at the same time nothing has been mentioned which has not been definitely tested by practical experience." First published in 1930, this second printing carries no date of publication but carries an advert for Iain F. Anderson's The Sunset Shore, published in 1934, with no indication that it was not immediately available. The author's preface to the 1946 edition of this book begins "Re-reading The Science of Spinning, after an interval of fourteen years..." suggesting a date of 1932 for the second printing. Chapters include:- The science of spinning; Equipment; Baits - natural and artificial; Casting; Spinning - heavy outfit; Spinning - the "Fairy" rod; Little things that matter; Tackle-making; On catching baits; Sea trout; Spinning for river trout; Lochs and reservoirs: grayling - pike; Heterodox. "A refreshing book, stimulating and convincing... It deserves very high praise, and we hope it will be studied." (The Field). "A very practical book." (The Scotsman).