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

(1929) 1953 2nd edition. 8vo (138 x 204mm). Pp224. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. Green cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

The story of the Wye salmon fisheries - rod and net, legal and otherwise; the Rebecca Riots, the Wye Fisheries Association, etc. This second edition "...has been greatly enriched by a chapter on the methods of Robert Pashley, who has fished the Wye since 1906 and in one year, using for the most part a trout rod and small flies, killed 678 salmon." (Ransome). "...re-illustrated with photographs especially taken by Mr Wren Howard... revisions and two additional chapters having brought it as near up to date as humanly possible."