BRIGHT WATERS: A CELEBRATION OF IRISH ANGLING. Chosen and edited by Niall Fallon and Tom Fort.

2002 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 217mm). Ppxxviii,244. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations, marbled end-papers, silk marker ribbon. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

A good anthology of Irish angling writing, game, coarse and sea. Contributors include Arthur Mainwaring, W.B. Yeats, William le Fanu, T.H. Kingsmill Moore, Augustus Grimble, J. O'Gorman, Stephen Gwynn, G.D. Luard, S.B. Wilkinson, J.B. Drought, Negley Farson, W. Durand, C. Gedney, W.Peard, Eric Craigie, F.D. Barker, Joseph Adams, Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, R. Allen, Maurice Headlam, W.H. Maxwell, F.D. Barker, Richard Hayward, Laurie Gaffey, A.A.Luce, Sir William Wilde, Seamus Heaney, Niall Fallon, J.W. Hills, Jim Reynolds, Sir Humphrey Davy, 'Cosmopolite', W.H. Maxwell, The Limerick Chronicle, John Bickerdyke, Gregory Greendrake, C.E.R.Sinclair, Ken Seaman, Michael Pritchard, E.V. Malone, John Nixon, R.H. Connell, Thomas O'Byrne, A.F. Magri MacMahon, Clive Gammon, Des Brennan.