THELWELL'S COMPLEAT TANGLER: BEING A PICTORIAL DISCOURSE OF ANGLERS AND ANGLING. By Norman Thelwell.

(1967) 1975 paperback edition. 12mo paperback (113 x 178mm). Pp128. B/w cartoon illustrations.

A collection of Thelwell's famous humorous angling illustrations. "What do fishermen really get up to when they abandon a warm bed before the crack of dawn, stuff a haversack with tins of assorted maggots, half a hundredweight of pulped bread and a folding campstool, and disappear into the drizzle? Millions of wives wish they knew the answer. It was clearly time that some sort of enquiry was made into the strange rituals of the cult, and its secrets exposed to the public gaze. After years of crawling through wet grass and conducting lonely vigils in distant torrents, Thelwell has at last presented his report."