SEVERN STREAM. By Brian Waters.

1949 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 219mm). Pp206. B/w photographs. Binding A, green cloth with gilt titles on brown spine label.

A journey down the River Severn looking at the river, people, its history and natural history; from its source in the Hafren Forest on Plynlimon, through the villages of Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. Hafren, Powisland, Royal Hill, coracles, the Wrekin, ironmasters and poachers, the Wyre Forest, the eel-catchers of the lower river. Two bindings are known for this edition; Binding A, green cloth with gilt titles on brown spine label and Binding B, green cloth with gilt titles directly on cloth of spine. This is Binding B.