Angler’s Paradise. Recollections of Twenty Years With Rod and Line in Ireland. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1929. First Edition. Pp 296, uncut. Green cloth faded, nest ownership ink stamp to half-title. Contents pages clean & bright throughout.

The author describes wonderful days fishing for trout, pike, perch and occasional salmon on Lough Inchiquin (Co Clare) and other waters in the region where he ventured every year from the early 1890s.

Fred Drummond Barker was an anglicised American, working in London, who loved the West of Ireland, eventually setting himself up on his favourite lough with a cottage in what was then a remote and primitive region.