FISH, FISHING and FISHERMEN. By William Caine.

1927 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 220mm). Ppxii,253+iiipp ads. B/w frontispiece photograph of author. Binding B. Mid-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, "London" at base of spine.

Entertaining tales, mostly of trout fishing. Caine died on holiday in Belgium in 1925. The present work was put togetherby the author's widow, Mrs Gordon Caine, after his death. Mrs Caine died in1927". He had written a number of novels which displayed him as a humourist of rare gifts, but he had never done anything better than (An Angler At Large) which is one of the choicest volumes in the library... Mrs. Caine published a posthumous volume of his fishing sketches, Fish, Fishing And Fishermen, with a preface by Guy C. Pollock... she herself died suddenly before the end of the year". (Where To Fish 1930).