FISHING: SALMON AND TROUT. By H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, with contributions from other authors. [A volume in] The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson.

(1885) 1904 ninth edition. Small 8vo (137 x 194mm). Ppxviii,483, ads. Engraved frontispiece, 3 plates, text engravings. Binding A. Half blue roan leather over orange/tan cloth boards, spine titled in gilt, gilt coat-of-arms on upper board, uniform with other titles in the series.

"With contirbutions from other authors." For many years the bible of game fishermen. The editor contributed the chapters on tackle and natural history, a chapter on spinning and bait-fishing for salmon and trout, and one on grayling. Major J.P. Traherneprovided the chapter on flyfishing for salmon, H.R. Francis one on Thames trout fishing, H.S. Hall one on chalk-stream dry-fly fishing, and Thomas Andrews one on salmon and trout culture. This fifth edition contains eight additional full page illustrations by Charles Whymper, and Conway Lloyd-Jones, and "upwards of a hundred new explanatory woodcuts are introduced." "Bibliographical Note. First Edition and Edition de Luxe, October 1885; Reprinted January and December 1886, April 1888; New Edition, with Additions, November 1889; New Edition, revised, April 1893; Reprinted February 1895; Cheaper Reissue, July 1901; Reprinted September 1901. Revised (Ninth) Edition, with additional Illustrations, March 1904; reprinted May 1906 and February 1912." From the title-page verso. Chapters include: On tackle, hooks and fishing gear; The eyed hook for salmon and trout flies; Lines - reel-lines, gut-lines, knots etc; Reels and reel-fastenings; rods and rod-joints; Nets, gaffs and gaffing, fish-carriers; Wading, waterproofs, dress and etceteras; Notes on British Salmonidae, from the angler-naturalist's viewpoint - 'silver' or migratory species, 'yellow' or non-migratory species; Notes on sea-trout and brown-trout fishing and flies; Spinning and bait-fishing for salmon and trout; The grayling and bait-fishing for [sic]. Additional articles: Salmon fishing with the fly, by the late Major John P. Traherne; Fly-fishing for brown-trout and grayling, by the late Henry R. Francis; Chalk-stream fishing with the dry-fly, and May-fly fishing, by H.S. Hall and Frederick M. Halford; Salmon and trout culture, by the late Thomas Andrews. Bibliographical note: First edition and edition de luxe, October 1885; Reprinted January and December 1886, April 1888; New edition, with additions, November 1889; New edition, revised, April 1893; Reprinted February 1895; Cheaper reissue, July 1901; Reprinted September 1901. Revised (ninth) edition, with additional illustrations, March 1904.