FISHING FOR A YEAR. By Jack Hargreaves. With drawings by Bernard Venables. Medlar Press leather edition.

(1951) 1995 new edition. De luxe issue. Small 8vo (135 x 194mm). Pp112. Printed in black and red, illustrated by Bernard Venables, handmade end-papers. Quarter-bound in mottled brown leather over green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt and black.

"Edition limited to 975 numbered copies of which 125 are quarter bound in leather." De luxe issue, limited to 125 copies in leather-backed bright green cloth gilt with hand-made end-papers. Both editions quickly sold out and are now out-of-print. One of the most delightful books for the all-round angler. The author takes us through his year fishing for dace, tench, roach, grayling, salmon, perch, pike, ferox and stream trout. "We could wish no child a more gifted teacher than Mr. Hargreaves, and are convinced that any pupil of his will become a dyed-in-the-wool angler for the rest of his days." (Angling, December 1951). Jack Hargreaves was well-known as the presenter of the television series Out Of Town. He produced two more collections of essays, Out Of Town: A Life Relived On Television, 1987, and The Old Country, 1988.