EDWARDIANS GO FISHING: OR MANY DAYS ON MANY WATERS. By G. Cornwallis-West.

. 1932 1st edition. Pp218. B/w photograph plates. Tan buckram, upper board and spine titled in black.

. Reminiscences of the author's own fishing experiences - childhood on the Clwyd and Elwy, chalkstream trout fishing in the south of England, and salmon and sea-trout fishing, largely in Scotland and Ireland. Cornwallis-West was well-placed to watch the Edwardian upper-classes at play, having married first Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill's mother), and later the famous actress, Mrs Patrick Campbell". A breezy book of anecdote and reminiscence, leaving an entertaining impression of the personalities and sport of the early years of the present century". (Where To Fish 1933).