ANGLING IN BRITISH ART THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES: PRINTS, PICTURES, BOOKS. By Walter Shaw Sparrow. With a Foreword by H.T. Sheringham, and two hundred illustrations, including thirty-nine in colour.

1923 1st edition. Large 4to (235 x 292mm). Ppxxii,288 + 4pp adverts. Illustrated with full-page plates, including 39 in colour, text figures. Printed on rag paper, top edge blue, deckle edges. Binding A. Dark blue coarse-weave buckram titled in gilt on spine and upper board. Blind-ruled borders. This cloth fades almost to brown. It has a slightly gloss finish. This version is most frequently seen.

An important and useful work. The author also wrote on fox hunting and sporting art.