TROUT FISHING. By Dan Holland.

1949 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 218mm). Ppxvii,420. Colour frontispiece photograph, b/w photograph plates, decorations by William J. Schaldach. Blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in silver-gilt.

"Dan Holland...has fished from the Arctic to Arizona, from the Sierras to the pasture streams of Connecticut. He has taken the eastern brook trout, the Dolly Varden, the brown, the rainbow, the cutthroat, the golden, the steelhead; not to mention sea trout, lake trout, Arctic char, and grayling. And now in his book he tells all that wonderful experience and priceless trout lore, spicing it with stories and illustrating it with his own photographs. Holland describes the different species: what they are like, where they are to be found, what they eat. He relates the life of a trout from the spawn bed to old age... There is a chapter on trout food, and the hatching of aquatic insects. One of the best of all is the chapter on trout habits".