RIVERS OF JOY: A CELEBRATION OF WATER. The paintings of Shirley Deterding. Text by John Bailey.

1992 1st edition. Landscape 4to (315 x 246mm). Pp95. Text by John Bailey, colour paintings by Shirley Deterding, light blue end-papers. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Shirley Deterding signs her canvasses Shirley Carnt. This is a compendium of paintings of rivers in all parts of the British Isles, with a descriptive text by John Bailey, "Interwoven [with] the memories and thoughts of a host of anglers, ghillies and river owners - men and women with rivers in their veins." Articles and paintings include; the River Shiel, Loch Cluanie, the Dee, Glencoe, Cley Mill, the Norfolk Broads, the Tay, the Spey, the Dionard, the Kennet, Bowes Moor, the Moriston, the Gruinard, Kelling Lake, Great Northern Diver, the Deveron, Bintree Mill, Michael's River in Labrador, the River Cluanie, Thornham Creek, the River Langa in Iceland, the Isle of Mull, the Naver. The foreword is by Hugh Falkus.