FISHING IN EDEN. A record of fifty years with rod and line in the valleys of the Eden and Eamont; to which are added some practical notes on flies and tackle. By William Nelson.

(1922) 2009 new edition. (2014 issue). 8vo (160 x 242mm). Ppxx,5-211,1p ad. b/w frontispiece portrait, colour plate of flies, b/w plates from paintings. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt, patterned end-papers.

Reminiscences of fifty years fishing the Eden and Eamont valleys in which Nelson writes of his lifetime of fishing and his continuing love for the Eden and its surrounding landscape. Arthur Ransome, writing appreciatively of Nelson, maintained, "It is one of the few modern fishing books certain of its longevity." This edition includes an introductory biographical essay by John Austin, an appreciation of the River Eden by Malcolm Greenhalgh and Ransome's essay, "In Memoriam: William Nelson," first published in Rod and Line. Published by the Flyfisher's Classic Library in 2009 in an edition limited to 500 copies. Although a limitation of 500 copies was stated, only 60 copies were produced in the leather FFCL binding. The remaining 440 copies are being issued in a new cloth binding and dust-wrapper in 2014.