"THE LAY OF THE LAST ANGLER:" IN FOUR CANTOS. To which is added Jack's Dangers And Deliverances. By the Hon. and Rev. Robert Liddell, formerly Vicar of St. Paul's, Wilton Place, London. With illustrations from original etchings by the author.

1884 1st edition thus. Small 8vo (133 x 190mm). 211 pp + 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph portrait of the author and 8 b/w plates. Binding A. Quarter brown Morocco over plum-coloured cloth boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, rough edges, brown coated end-papers.

Rev. Liddell describes his highly successful salmon fishing on the rivers Tweed and Earn in a number of long narrative poems, or "cantos." He initially wrote under the pseudonym "A Sexagenarian," but identifies himself in this first combined edition, "in four cantos," in 1884.