COLLINS GUIDE TO THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE. By Bent J. Muus. Illustrated by Preben Dahlstrom. Edited by Alwynne Wheeler.

(1967) 1971 1st English edition. Small 8vo (132 x 203mm). Pp222. Colour illustrations by Preben Dahlstrom throughout. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt with gilt fish vignette.

. One of the better guides to British and European fishes, originally published in Denmark in 1967. Contents include:- The fish; Key to the main groups; Important food animals; Cyclostomes; Sturgeons; The herring family; The salmon family; Pike and mud-minnows; The carp family; Loaches; Catfishes; Eels; Toothcarps; The codfish family; The perch family; Sun perches; Sand smelts; Grey mullets; Gobies and blennies; Bullheads and sticklebacks; Some important freshwater inverterbrates; Predators and parasites; History of freshwater fishing; The fish's environment today; Efficient fish culture; Fisheries biology; Lists of foreign fish-names.