FISHING SEASON: AN ARTIST'S FISHING YEAR. Rodger McPhail. Text by Colin Laurie McKelvie.

1990 1st edition. 4to (212 x 303mm). Pages not numbered [pp164]. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout by Rodger McPhail, text by Colin McKelvie, yellow end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Fishing Season is Rodger McPhail's wide-ranging personal and artistic odyssey through the angling year, beginning with the first sport of a New Year, with early salmon from the deep and chill waters of Tweed in February. On southern chalk streams there are the first stirrings of trout rising to emergent insects, while pike and chub, grayling and perch prepare for spawning. We have glimpses from the river bank and also into the private, silent, underwater worlds of the fish themselves." A beautiful book.