COLLECTING FISHING TACKLE: A BEGINNERS GUIDE. By Tom Quinn.

(1994) 1995 reprint. 8vo paperback (137 x 216mm). Pp80. B/w photographs, illustrations.

This book "is the first, straightforward, no-nonsense introduction to this endlessly fascinating hobby. Author Tom Quinn, and avid collector himself, looks at the whole range of collectable tackle from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries right up to the 1950's and beyond. He also argues that fishing tackle is one of the few areas of collecting where the enthusiast has a real chance of discovering some valuable rarity hidden away in an attic or a junk shop."