TROUT FISHING. By W. Earl Hodgson.

(1904) 1904 revised reprint. 8vo (139 x 204mm). Ppxxii,320 + 6pp "Some Opinions of the Press on the First Edition". Colour frontispiece, colour plates of flies. Blue-grey cloth with pictorial design blocked in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt.

"...with a frontispiece by H.L. Rolfe and a facsimile in colours of a model book of flies, for stream and lake, arranged according to the months in which the lures are appropriate". An attractive A and C Black colour plate book. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, "Brown Trout," by H.L. Rolfe, 6 colour plates of trout flies, captioned on tissue-guards. "The flies presented in this volume were reproduced direct at the Menpes Press under the supervision of Mr. Mortimor Menpes." "The interest of a work on angling may safely be said to be in direct ratio to the boldness and originality with which the author attacks and discusses debatable points..Tried by this test, 'Trout Fishing', fresh and stimulating and full of matter as an egg is of meat, must be pronounced one of the most interesting works on angling..All is written in a masterly style, always pleasant and genial..He casts his wet flies and his fancies with charming literary skill..The coloured illustrations of trout flies for lake and stream are beyond comparison the most artistic and life-like reproductions that have ever appeared in print." (The Fishing Gazette).