FISHING GOSSIP: OR STRAY LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOKS OF SEVERAL ANGLERS. Edited by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell.

1864 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 196mm). Ppxi,329 + 2 pp ads. Illustrated with a sepia frontispiece and title-page illustration, and a b/w plate of natural flies. Purple cloth, gilt title and angler vignette on spine, blind-stamped patterned boards.

A collection of articles by noted anglers of the period. Thomas Westwood on the River Lea, the Coquet and on "A stream in Arden"; Edward N. Murta on"Sun-spearing" eels, Irish loach-trolling, fly-fishing by nightlight, and on Deeside; Greville Fennell on angling literature; William J. Ffennell on salmon rivers and seasons; William Pinkerton on carp and on the etymology of bait and entomology of may-flies and stone-flies; Dr Albert Gunther on Wels catfish; plus more by Walter Carruthers, W.B. Lord, H.R. Francis, Jonathan Couch, Alex Russel, Thomas Tod Stoddart, W.C. Stewart and Frank Buckland.