NIMROD, RAMROD, FISHING-ROD AND NATURE TALES. By J. Whitaker, F.Z.S., of Rainworth Lodge, Notts.

(1909) 1910 2nd impression. 8vo (142 x 218mm). Ppxv,221,i. Colour frontispiece of Rainworth Lodge, b/w plates. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled and decorated in gilt.

Fishing, shooting and hunting memoirs of a Nottinghamshire gentleman, with many observations of wildlife, particularly birds. Game and coarse fishing,perch, salmon, trout, snipe, ptarmigan, deer stalking. Visits to Perthshire, the Isle of Bute, Selborne, Walton and elsewhere. "How five guns shot 187 brace of partridges on a November day," "A wonderful run with the South Notts Hounds," "A winter's day with the perch," "Seven hundred miles for two snipe," "The best rabbit day I ever had".