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8vo. 5.5 x 7.5 inches. xiii + [iii] + 472 pp. Bound in original brown pictorial cloth, gilt. Patterned endpapers. Extremities a little worn and rear hinge starting to crack, but otherwise a very good clean copy, Illustrated by frontispiece and numerous wood engraved text figures, including angling equipment and flies, and by title page vignette. The salmon and trout fishing volume, and second to be published, of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1837-1915) was a poet, writer on angling and H.M. Inspector of Sea Fisheries. First published 1885.