THE TALE OF A WYE FISHERMAN. By H.A. Gilbert. First edition.

1929 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppvii,160+8pp ads. B/w photograph plates, end-paper map. Binding B. Light brown cloth, spine and upper board titled and ruled in black.

The story of the Wye salmon fisheries - rod and net, legal and otherwise; the Rebecca Riots, the Wye Fisheries Association, etc". The actual record of the Wye, and incidentally the record rod-caught spring fish for Great Britain, was the 59 and a half pounder caught at Winforton by Miss Doreen Davey in March, 1923, and we feel sure that Captain Gilbert will not feel jealous when we say that Miss Davey's own racy description of her encounter is one of the best bits of reading in what is an altogether exceptionally delightful book". (Game and Gun, April 1929).