ANGLERS' FISHES and THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXXIV. By Eric Taverner. First edition.

1957 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp284 + 2pp ads. Illustrated with one colour plate of flies (mostly terrestrials), b/w photographs and line drawings. Errata slip at page 239. Tan buckram-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt Lonsdale Library monogram on upper board. Tan dust-wrapper with tipped-on colour plates of flies on spine and front. Binding and dust-wrapper uniform with other volumes in the Lonsdale Library series. .

"The life of fishes and those creatures upon which they are dependent and the natural conditions governing their world." Chapters include: Some fishes and their distribution; The salmon; The brown or resident trout; The seatrout; The grayling; The steelhead and the rainbow trout; The carps; Perch and pike; Anatomical; Fins and locomotion; Distinction of species, etc; Aquatic vision; The other special senses; Coloration and disguise; Reproduction in some fishes; May-flies, sedge-flies and stone-flies; Other four-winged insects; Some two-winged flies; Higher crustaceans and crustaceans of the plankton; Freshwater snails; Some notes on migration; Aquatic vegetation; Predators; Water - lakes and rivers, food chain; Regulation of stock.