Books

Picken and Sons Melbourne 1950, 8vo Illust 235p D/J.   Contains studies of the trout, fishing techniques, insects, fly tying  and casting plastic bodies for artificial flies,  but most significant is the study of the effect of barometric pressure on trout.  Gingrich commented that this one chapter on pressure had a 'higher revelation quotient ... than any one chapter in any of the hundreds of fishing books that have come out anywhere since 1950'. Although it is based on scientific data this book suggests a practical approach to fly fishing. Inscription and signed by the author. D/J and FEP browning.  Small section of top of D/J spine missing.   -Very Good   

 

Barrie and Jenkins London 1984 reprint. 8vo Illust with 4 colour and 38 Black and white plates and 95 diagrams 304p. D/J. A comprehensive survey of fishing for game fish with an artificial fly.    Writers include Scott, Turner, Kite, Sargeaunt, Walker Deane and Pentelow. Includes chapters on salmon, sea trout, brown trout, in rain fed rivers, in chalk streams and lakes and rainbow trout, grayling, casting, fly dressing, entomology of lakes and rivers and stream management.    Illust with 4 colour and 38 Black and white plates and 95 diagrams.  –Fine                                                                

Seeley Service & Co. London 1955 1St Edn., 8vo Illust 159p. Brown Cloth. A collection of articles on a central theme that always excites the reader. Some of the articles have appeared in The Field and The Shooting Times.. Includes, April on the Chalk Stream, A Handicap of Six, Mayfly Time, Sunlight or Evening Star, Underneath the Arches, Blank Days, The Blue Winged Olive, An August Carnival, Meon Revisited and others. B/w Photographs of eight of the famous rivers in the UK.  Dark Brown Cloth. with slight rubbing to edges, Previous owners signature.

Seeley Service & Co. London 1955 1^St Edn., 8vo Illust 159p.   Dark Brown Cloth.  A collection of articles on a central theme that always excites the reader. Some of the articles have appeared in The Field and The Shooting Times. . Includes,April on the Chalk Stream, A Handicap of Six, Mayfly Time, Sunlight or Evening Star, Underneath the Arches, Blank Days, The Blue Winged Olive, An August Carnival, Meon Revisited and others.     B/w photographs of eight of the famous rivers in the UK. Some foxing to prelims e/p's and edges and slight edgewear to cover. - Very Good 

Herbert Jenkins London 1968 1St Edn. 8vo Illust 192p. D/J. This work includes useful tactics, natural chalk stream flies and their patterns, as well as a valuable bibliography. Shows both how to catch fish and to enjoy the experience. P/C - Fine

Gibbings and Co London 1895 8vo illust 467p. Red Cloth A new edition and notes by G. Christopher Davis. Being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy of perusal of most anglers. Regarded as the great classic of angling literature. Sl Rubbing on spine ends. o/w - Fine $60

Samuel Bangster and Sons London 1808, 7th edn, 1st Bagster edn, 8vo illust, 512p. Quarter leather with marbled boards. Engraved frontis with many full page plates and text. Being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy of perusal of most anglers. Regarded as the great classic of angling literature. - Front hinge cracked o/w - Very Good

Privately printed for the Navarre Society, London 1925, 8vo. 445p. Original green cloth with gilt cartouche from the title page of the 1st edn. Edited by John Major. Original etchings by Damman printed on vellum and 74 wood engravings, Being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy of perusal of most anglers. Regarded as the great classic of angling literature. Sl rubbing to spine edges - Very Good