FISH and FISHERS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. By Keith Harwood.

2014 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp304. Colour plates of flies, colour photograph plates, b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is a detailed and interesting history of fishing in the Lake District - including much that the reader will be unaware of about the commercial fisheries which once existed. Chapters include: Perch and perchines; Pike; Trout and salmon; Charr; Vendace and schelly; The commercial fishers; Charr fishers and charr potters; Adlington and Hutchinson - fish hook makers of Kendal; William Wordsworth - poet and angler; An angler's best friend - the story of Charles Gough; John Wilson - the fishing professor; Stephen Oliver - an angling tour of the Lakeland hills; John Beever - a very practical angler; Dr. John Davy - angler and surgeon; George Foster Braithwaite - the angling mayor of Kendal; John Watson and the guide writers; Beatrix Potter - in search of Mr. Jeremy Fisher; Here and there with Tindall Harris; Thomas Bowness Wright - The Watcher by The Bridge; William Nelson - A Fisher in Eden; John Waller Hills - politician and angler; Richard Clapham - a sportsman on fell, beck and tarn; Arthur Ransome - author, angler and journalist; Tom Davidson - angler and railwayman; Hugh Falkus - the sea trout guru; Nineteenth century list of flies for the Lakes.