TROUT FISHING FROM ALL ANGLES: A complete guide to modern methods. By Eric Taverner. The Lonsdale Library Volume II. By Eric Taverner.

1929 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp448. B/w photographs and illustrations, silk marker ribbon, top edge gilt. Quarter bound in dark green leather over green cloth, gilt monogram to upper board, spine titled in gilt, marbled end-papers.

With a chapter on "Trout Scales" by G. Herbert Nall, M.A., F.R.M.S., and one on "The Legal Aspect of Fishing" by Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law". "The best all-round book on brown trout fishing that has appeared in this generation". (Times Literary Supplement). Chapters include: Milestones in angling literature (2 chapters); Life history of the trout (2 chapters); Tackle (2 chapters); Casting a fly; Entomology (2 chapters); Trout flies; Trout flies, the Ephemeridae; Trout flies, the Sedge Flies, etc; Anglers' knots and splices; Wax, gut, hooks; Practice (4 chapters); Rise-forms; Fly dressing materials; some ways to dress flies; Fishing in lochs and lakes (2 chapters); Dapping, dibbing, shade-fishing or bushing; Spinning for trout; Worm and creeper fishing; Brown trout scales; The grayling; The legal aspect of fishing; Trout streams and fishery management. This is a copy of the quarter leather-bound edition.