FISHING WITH FLOAT AND FLY. By William Child. With line drawings in the text and jacket design by David Carl Forbes.

1966 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 222mm). Ppviii,175. Colour plate of fish, b/w photographs, line illustrations by David Carl Forbes. Matt pictorial boards.

Essentially a how-to-do-it book on float-fishing for coarse fish and flyfishing for trout. The colour plates are taken from those used in Warne's Wayside and Woodland and Observer's books on freshwater fish. David Carl Forbes' line drawings and, especially, his delighful colour cover illustration of a perch, float and fly add a great deal to the book.