THE TROUT. By the Marquess of Granby with Chapters on Breeding by Colonel F.R. Custance, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series.

(1898) 1994 new edition. Small 8vo (130 x196mm). Ppxxix,272. New colour frontispiece by Rodger McPhail, illustrations. Green boards, titled on spine and upper board in gilt.

A classic on trout and trout fishing. This book is divided into three sections. Written by the Marquis of Granby: Trout Fishing: Fly fishing for trout; Lake fishing; Worm fishing and spinning for trout; River preserving and river poaching; Fishing generalities; Some heavy baskets and big fish; Grayling fishing. Written by Colonel F.H. Custance: Trout breeding: Historical; Rearing, water and hatching house, the hatching apparatus, collection of the ova, hatching, the alevin stage, rearing the fry, ponds, growing the yearlings and two-year olds, travelling; stocking. Concludes with cookery of the trout by Alexander Innes-Shand. Volume 2 of the 12 volume Game Conservancy edition of the New Fur, Feather and Fin series. Edition limited to 500 copies. This is an out-of-series, un-numbered copy.