FISHING VIGNETTES: BEING EXTRACTS FROM A DIARY AND OTHER FRAGMENTS, 1875 TO 1922. By Cecil Braithwaite.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). ND (1923) 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 222mm). Pp240. B/w photograph plates, errata slip. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine & upper board. Cloth slightly rubbed and marked, owner's name and decorative plate to slightly browned end-papers. Good copy. "Most of the content is about salmon fishing, on the Killaloe in Ireland; the Deveron, the Barr, the Dee and the Grimersta, all in Scotland; a month on the Suldal in Norway, and so on." (Wood). Chapters include: Early days; Wet and dry fly; The Lake District; St. Mary's Loch; Luib, Rannoch and Tummil; The Devoran - Mount Blairy Water; Loch fishing; Killaloe and Killarney, 1893; Loch Awe and Invergarry, 1894 or 1895; Sunda River, Norway, 1897; Tomdown, Glengarry, 1898; Strathpeffer and Rannoch, 1899; Cat Lodge, Laggan; Muiresk, Devoran, 1902; Glenbarr Abbey, 1903; Invergarry and Loch Rannoch; Odd days; Devoran, St. Mary's Loch, etc., 1907; Tomdown Hotel, Glengarry, 1909; Inverawe, 1910; Tomdown, 1911; Huntly Lodge, Huntly, the Devoran, 1916; Huntly and the Eden at Carlisle; Fishing rods of my early days and those of to-day; An angling story founded on facts; Invergarry; Stornoway, the Grimersta and Morsgail, Island of Lewis; Disappointments and successes, 1921; The Grimersta River; The Wye at Builth; Boys will be boys. . …