SALMON FISHING. The Lonsdale Library Volume X. By Eric Taverner, with contributions by G.M.L. La Branche, Eric Parker, W.J.M. Menzies, J.A. Rennie, A.H.E. Wood, Wyndham Forbes, Thomas Rook & Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1931). (1931) 1935 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp472. Colour frontispiece of salmon flies, b/w photos, ills, end-paper maps. Quarter green leather. Leather quite rubbed and worn but a good copy in the superior binding. Dust-wrapper flap taped inside. ".with contributions by G.M.L. La Branche, Eric Parker, W.J.M. Menzies, J.A. Rennie, A.H.E. Wood, Wyndham Forbes, Thomas Rook and Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law. This a copy of the quarter leather-bound issue of the 1935 edition. Chapters include: Life history (four chapters); Literature (three chapters); Tackle (two chapters); Salmon-hooks; Gut, casts, etc; Knots and splices; Casting a salmon-fly; The practice of fishing with the sunk fly (eight chapters); The choice and meaning of a salmon-fly; Transitional; Greased-line fishing; Fly-dressing materials; Some ways of tying salmon-flies (three chapters); A modern system of fly-tying; The evolution of the salmon-fly (two chapters); Fishing the minnow and spoon; Fishing with worm and prawn; Repairs and salvage; Dry-fly fishing; Entr'acte - a critique of fishing with the greased line; Shrimp-fishing; Scales - their formation and uses; The River Shannon; Some names of salmon pools; The legal aspect of fishing; The cooking of fish; The salmon river (two chapters). The Lonsdale Library attempted to provide the most comprehensive coverage of sporting subjects. .…