HOOK, LINE and SINKER: AN ANGLER'S COMPANION. Compiled by Shelley Klein.

2001 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 204mm). Pp180. B/w illustrations, brief bibliography. Laminated boards.

Anthology of writing on angling. Wide variety of contributors including many not usually known for writing on fishing. Contents include:- The pleasures of princes by Gervase Markham; The secrets of angling by John Dennys; An anointment for fish bait; The experienced angler by Robert Venables; The compleat angler by Izaak Walton; Rural sports by John Gay; The art of angling by Richard Brookes; A few choice words by Samuel Johnson; The excursion by William Wordsworth; Walden: or life in the woods by Henry Thoreau; The Fishing Gazette; Fly-rods and fly-tackle by Henry P. Wells; Days and nights of salmon fishing by William Scrope; The taking of a salmon by Thomas Tod Stoddart; A cold bath by A. Nelson Cheney; My fishing days and fishing ways by J.W. Martin; The fairy-like fly by James A. Henshall, MD; Cheneys and the House of Russell by J.A. Froude; The secrets of angling by A.S. Moffat; Chalk-stream studies by Charles Kingsley; The angler's invitation by Thomas Tod Stoddart; Angling sketches by Andrew Lang; Recollections of fly fishing by Edward Hamilton; The fisherman's legendary kindness by John Whitney; Wild sports in Ireland by John Bickerdyke; Fly fishing by Edward Grey; An open creel and coarse fishing by H.T. Sheringham; Heaven by Rupert Brooke; Big two-hearted river by Ernest Hemingway; Farewell thou busy world by John H. Bradley; Where the bright waters meet by Henry Plunkett Greene; An angler's prayer; Going fishing by Negley Farson; The angler's England by Patrick Chalmers; Fish, fishing and the meaning of life by Jeremy Paxman; The fisherman's bedside book by 'BB'; Country tales: old gillies by Tom Quinn; Rod and line by Arthur Ransome; To an old friend by Patrick Chalmers; Gone fishing by Michael Hornern; Reflections on the water by Fred J. Taylor; The fish by Rupert Brooke; Confessions of a rank amateur by Toby Buchan; Trout bum by John Gierach; Still water angling by Richard Walker; The face of England by Edmund Blunden.