This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and take nobly in them. I have myself caught a hundredweight of them in a day in a lake in Ireland. They are found in most Salmon rivers, and in smaller streams which are too shallow for Salmon. The smallest mountain beck will often, when in state, give good sport. They also, as I have shown, take in salt ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and take nobly in them. I have myself caught a hundredweight of them in a day in a lake in Ireland. They are found in most Salmon rivers, and in smaller streams which are too shallow for Salmon. The smallest mountain beck will often, when in state, give good sport. They also, as I have shown, take in salt water, and are quite as likely to be found in the mouth of the river as they are in the highest pool up amongst the mountains, for they are great and pertinacious travellers. You may catch them in Salmon pools, in dull eddies, and in sharp streams; so I can give no advice which would be of any value on that score. They are at times very false risers, and come very short at the fly when making apparently a capital rise. This is very trying to the temper." Mr. Francis concludes that the White or The T. loatsta is a terrestrial amphipod. and never voluntarily seeks the water; if this was the species, they must have been carried out by the tide. Salmon Trout "is the most sporting and game fish which the angler meets with."--(Book on Angling, p. 331-332.) As to the colour and quality of the flesh, it is generally of deep pink or red, and of excellent flavour; its price is usually the same as that of a Salmon. The flesh of the Bull Trout of the Coquet is said by some to be invariably very light, with scarcely a tinge of pink about it, and to be inferior in quality. I have, however, been informed by Mr. Christie that sometimes the Salmon Trout of the Beauly is also white, and not very good. According to Giinther the Salnio trutta attains to a length of about three feet, and the female is mature when from ten to twelve inches long. In a specimen I received in May, 1878, which weighed three pounds and a half, the total length was...
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A. F. Lydon. Good. No Jacket. No date but Copac suggest 1879. 38.0 x 26.5 cm. Pp xxvi, 204, text illustrations, 41 chromolithograph plates. Contemporary 1/2 morocco with gilt lettering. Frontis badly foxed, some foxing on some other pages of both text and plates.
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Good. Signed Copy Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Signed by Robinson on bookplate affixed to front free endpage. From the Art Reference Collection of wildlife artist and outdoorsman Alan James Robinson. This collection was used by Robinson to create his wonderful art and Cheloniidae Press books. (Great Britain, freshwater fish, early works, facsimiles)
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Ink name and address to verso of front endpaper; spine chipped at the head, not affecting the title; some shelf wear and light use to edges. 228 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Large 8vo,
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Folio. 37.5cm, the first edition, being 41 brightly coloured chromo-lithograph plates, loose, in the original elaborately decorated brick brown cloth, bevelled boards, board edges worn, wanting the title page and the text volume, the plates are good clear strikes, includes the plate of the Carp (illustrated) which is often wanting-List of titles available on request-Winsor p81. Heckscher 1047. Starkman p87. These are fine colour-printed plates, drawn from nature by A.F. Lydon, printed by B. Fawcett, The set includes many game fish-salmon, trout, carp, tench, pike, perch etc. The plates are notable not only for the fine compositions showing one or two fish on the riverbank, but for the detailed topography behind the main subject. Winsor p81. Plates are titled: 1. Pike; 2. Allis Shad, Twaite Shad; 3. Spined Loach, Minnow, Loach, Bleak; 4. Pomeranian Bream, White Bream; 5. Common Bream; 6. Golden Tench; 7. Tench; 8. Azurine, Dobule, Rudd; 9. Graining, Dace; 10. Chub; 11. Roach; 12. Gudgeon, Barbel; 13. Ruffe and Miller's Thumb; 14. Sticklebacks (x6); 15. Perch (foxed); 16. Carp; 17. Crucian Carp, Prussian Carp; 18. Golden and Bronze Carp; 19. Lochleven Trout; 20. Grilse, or Young Salmon; 21. Black-Finned Trout; 22. Sea Lamprey, Lampern, Planner's Lamprey, Pride; 23. Sharp-Nosed Eel, Broad-Nosed Eel; 24. Sturgeon; 25. Burbot; 26. Young Trout, Salmon Parr, Smelt; 27. Pollan, Powan; 28. Vendace, Gwyniad, Grayling; 29. Loch Killin Charr; 30. Torgoch, Alpine Charr; 31. Windemere Charr, Cole's Charr, Gray's Charr; 32. Great Lake Trout; 33. Salmon (Male); 34. Salmon Trout; 35. Salmon Trout (Var. ); 36. Sewen; 37. Bull Trout; 38. Galway Sea Trout; 39. Short-Headed Salmon, Silvery Salmon; 40. Common Trout; 41. Gillaroo Trout.
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A few minute scuffs to the binding. The plates are bright and fine. xxvi, 204 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 40 fine color plates drawn from nature by A. F. Lydon, each with tissue overleaf, and numerous engravings. Folio,
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