THE BOOK OF THE GRAYLING: Being a description of the fish and the art of angling for him, as practiced chiefly in the Midlands and the North of England, By T.E. Pritt. Flyfisher's Classic Library edition.

(1888) 2007 new edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,64. Three colour plates, one folding. Full maroon buckram. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies.

"...sketches lightly the habits and habitat of the fish as they were accepted fifty years ago, following with some capital pages on autumn fishing with the wet fly, and giving dressings of fifteen flies selected by well-known grayling fishers of his time. The rest of the slender volume is mostly occupied by excellent descriptive notes on the popular North Country form of grayling fishing known as "swimming the worm." Pritt wrought--and wrote--well as a pioneer, but he only touched the fringe of what has grown into a big subject, and he had not entirely shaken off the hackles of traditional fallacy." (W. Carter Platts. Grayling Fishing. 1939). "We have reproduced the very rare 1888 first edition of The Book of the Grayling by T.E. Pritt published by Goodall and Suddick of Leeds. This book is split into two chapters: "All about Him" and "When, Where, and How to Catch Him." There are three colour plates : 1 fold out of a grayling, 1 of flies and 1 of floats and the dorsal fin of a grayling plus 2 pages of advertisements." With a new introduction by angling historian, John Austin.