THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WALES. By William Condry, M.A., M.Sc. Collins New Naturalist No. 66. Standard Hardback First Edition.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WALES. By William Condry, M.A., M.Sc. Collins New Naturalist No. 66. Standard Hardback First Edition.

SEVERN STREAM. By Brian Waters.

SEVERN STREAM. By Brian Waters.

IANTO THE FISHERMAN AND OTHER SKETCHES OF COUNTRY LIFE. By Alfred W. Rees.

1904 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 209mm). Ppxvi,350. Two b/w plates by Florence H. Laverock and 4 photogravure plates. Green decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt.

Romanticised tales of salmon and trout fishing, as well as of poaching, in Wales at the end of the nineteenth century. J.K. Hudson, Rees's literary executor, provides a Memoir to "The Heron of Castle Creek" and says "Thomas Alfred Wesley Rees, the 'Alfred Wellesley Rees' of Ianto The Fisherman and Creatures Of The Night, was born December 7th, 1872, at Pembroke Dock. His father... was an unpaid preacher among the Wesleyans". . . For his pen-name Rees, who later took orders in the Church of England, dropped the name of the great Methodist preacher and replaced it with that of the Duke of Wellington.
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9374
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Author Rees (Thomas Alfred Wesley). (1872-1917).
Book Code 9374
ISBN B00087FG4A.
Book Description Some use and foxing but a very good copy.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1904
Publisher John Murray.
Place London.