BRITISH ANGLERS' NATURAL HISTORY. By E. G. Boulenger. Number 109 in the Britain in Pictures series.

1946 1st edition. 8vo (164 x 228mm). Pp48. 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations, brief bibliography. Pictorial paper-covered boards, issued with dust-wrapper.

"[the author] has provided the "well governed" angler (to use Izaak Walton's phrase) with a guide to the fishes and insects which inhabit our streams and rivers. He describes, with fascinating detail and anecdote, such things as the life of the eel and the salmon, the gruesome habits of lampreys and the ferociousness of the small stickleback." Boulenger was curator of reptiles and lower vertebrates for the Zoological Society for thirty-two years. Author of many natural history books he was also a regular contributor to the proceedings of the society until his death in April 1946. Part of the Britain in Pictures series.