BY HOOK AND BY CROOK. By Fraser Sandeman. With illustrations by the author.

(1892) 1894 2nd edition. Square 8vo (160 x 200mm). Ppx,255. Illustrated with 15 full page plates, 10 of them in colour, including several plates of flies, a frontispiece photograph of a Thames trout, and a double plate of hooks shown actual size, plus numerous text drawings. Cream-coloured buckram, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt design of fly and gaff on upper board, top edge gilt, deckle edges.

Salmon and trout fishing, with a chapter on tying salmon flies, one on feathers used in fly dressing, Original Patterns Of Salmon-Flies, tackle, wading, casting, fishing the mayfly. Many anecdotal chapters, including The Inglorious Death Of A Thames Trout, A Fine Bag On The Test, Chub Fishing On The Thames (Fly), Galway Bridge, and Tidal Waters. Good colour plates of salmon flies.