INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG ANGLERS. By Michael Shephard.

1955 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w illustrations. Blue-green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This is a book for beginners, for the benefit of youngsters who have no knowledgeable parent or friend to start them off in the right direction. "The frontispiece depicts trout, salmon and grayling, but the book deals in the main with coarse fish and fishing methods. It does this commendably..." (Angling, August 1955). Chapters include:- Where to find your fish; Rod and tackle; Running water; Trotting; Still waters; Fly-fishing; Wet-fly; Spinning.