A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, Etc. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1867. First Edition. Pp xi, 429, [catalogue]. Bound in half red morocco over cloth boards, spine ruled in gilt with gilt lettered & fishing motifs to compartments. A fine bright copy.

The engraved plates are of fishing tackle and flies, with several fine hand-coloured plates of classic salmon flies.

One of the greatest and most comprehensive angling books. A good section on pike with plates of rigs and flights.

“His main book, covering every aspect of angling, coarse, spinning and fly, A Book On Angling, was far in advance of anything that had been published before.”