SPOTTY HERBERTS. Compiled by Andrew Herd. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2004 1st edition - leather-bound issue. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Pp200. B/w illustrations, bibliography. Fully bound in maroon leather, upper board and spine titled in silver, black fish motif to upper board, silk marker ribbon, marbled end-papers. One of 98 numbered leather-bound copies.

An anthology of tales about fishing for trout (or Spotty Herberts). Contributions from Negley Farson, Arthur Ransome, David Scholes, John Waller Hills, Roderick Haig-Brown, John Gierach, F.M. Halford, William Caine, Edward Barder, Robert Traver, Ted Leeson, John Gierach, James Hill, Andrew Motion, Patrick Chalmers, Douglas Stewart, Sir Edward Grey, Ken Cameron, G.E.M. Skues, Ian Niall, J.W. Dunne, and poetry from Ted Hughes. Andrew Herd was an associate editor of Waterlog magazine. The edition was limited to 498 numbered copies, 400 bound in cloth and 98 leather-bound in slipcase. This is a copy of the leather-bound edition.