FROM MAJOR TO MINOR: SOME KEYS FOR ANGLERS. By Major Kenneth Dawson.

FROM MAJOR TO MINOR: SOME KEYS FOR ANGLERS. By Major Kenneth Dawson.

RIVERS OF ICELAND. By Major-General R.N. Stewart.

RIVERS OF ICELAND. By Major-General R.N. Stewart.

FROM MAJOR TO MINOR: SOME KEYS FOR ANGLERS. By Major Kenneth Dawson.

1928 1st edition. 4to (190 x 255mm). Ppviii,291. Annotated (b/w illustrations) by The Wag. Pictorial green and oatmeal cloth.

A light-hearted series of letters from the author to his nephew on the subject of salmon and trout fishing (and grayling). The publishers asked Major Dawson to write a book based on letters to his son: being a bachelor and having no son, "I compromised by adopting a nephew and, to make him more real, called him after my favourite dog." Chapters include; trout rods and tackle; first casts; wet fly fishing; natural history; more about salmon; dry fly fishing; sea trout; night fishing; more about night fishing; fishing with natural bait; Blagdon Lake; three chapters on salmon fishing; low water salmon fishing; three chapters on spinning and spinning tackle; grayling and coarse fishing. Every right-hand page has a full-page, humorous illustration, with vignettes to most of the left-hand pages. The illustrated front board has a strip of green cloth pasted up its centre which perhaps encourages the bowing frequently observed in copies of this edition. A second edition was published in 1933, in an 8vo size, but without any of the illustrations which are so much a part of this handsome first edition.
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24677
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Author Dawson (Kenneth).
Book Code 24677
ISBN No ISBN.
Book Description Cloth slightly used, spotting to prelims and edges but good copy.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1928
Publisher Country Life.
Place London.