FROM MINNOWS TO MARLIN. By Dave Steuart.

2011 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Ppxvi,260,xii. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations by John Searl, silk marker ribbon. Pictorial gilt brown boards. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies. Designed and produced by Martin Mumby.

This is the autobiography of renowned River Avon angler, journalist and author Dave Steuart. It is quite as much a biography of the author's late wife, Kay Steuart, by whom "he was quite often outfished [and who] was possibly the most successful lady angler in the history of the sport." This book includes all manner of freshwater fishing in the UK, sea angling which includes giant skate off Ireland and shark off Cornwall, as well as dorado, bonefish, cobia, many species of shark, marlin and others in the Americas, New Zealand and elsewhere. This edition was limited to 550 individually numbered copies with the first 50 copies being bound in leather. It is now out of print and becoming increasingly sought after. With introductory material by John Wilson, Richard Ogden, John Cross, Tony Myatt and Bob Church. The dust-wrapper illustration is by John Searl.