TALES FROM THE RIVER BANK. By John Bailey.

1997 1st edition. 4to (195 x 252mm). Pp224. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations by Robert Olsen and Kevan Kelsey, bibliography. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

Written to accompany the BBC television series of the same name, this book deals with tales of all the usual British species on a chapter by chapter basis. Barbel, chub, trout, carp, salmon, eels, pike, tench, rudd, roach, grayling and ferox. Readable and well-informed, as one would expect.