A FRAGMENT. THE ANCIENT FREE FISHERY OF THE WYE. THE IRCHENFIELD OR WORMELOW PAGEANT. By John Lloyd.

2019 1st edition, special issue. 4to (220 x 297mm). Pp304. Colour photographs throughout. Quarter bound in blue-grey Atlantic salmon leather, cream paper-covered boards titled in black, two silk markers. Blue slip-case, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Stout white corrugated cardboard storage wallet, black titles and mackerel-tail decoration in black to lid.

"On July 17th, 1911, a majority of one in the House of Lords decided the great Wye Fishery Dispute in favour of the Earl of Chesterfield and Mrs. Foster, the Riparian Owners, and against the Freeholders, in part of seven miles of the Wye, in the Manor of Wormelow. The Freeholders claimed an ancient right to fish there, and resisted the exclusive claim to part of the fishery which the Earl and Mrs. Foster as brinkers, recently set up." "Many men will remember the way in which [John Lloyd] championed the Hoarwithy fishermen some years ago when their claim to rights of free fishing in the Wye was being examined, and the pamphlet full of historical instances which he published in support of them. He published many pamphlets in the course of his life..." (Salmon and Trout Magazine, August 1915).