IN THE LAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL TROUT. By Arthur Tysilio Johnson.

1907 1st edition. Hardback issue. Small 8vo (118 x 176mm). Pp170 + 2pp ads. B/w vignette illustrations. Binding B - Green cloth gilt, yapp edges*.

A series of essays on flyfishing for trout and sea-trout, many of them with a Welsh background. The author was a well-known gardener, poultry farmer and writer who lived near Conwy in North Wales*. This hardcover issue is seen in two variant bindings. Binding A - Green cloth, gilt titles and silhouette of angler on upper board, spine titled in gilt in lower case with "beautiful" on one line, yapp fore-edge, colour plates of trout flies (by Hardy Brothers) as front and rear end-papers. Binding B - Green cloth, gilt titles and silhouette of angler on upper board, spine titled in gilt in upper case with "beauti-ful" on two lines, yapp fore-edge, plain white end-papers. This is a copy of binding B.