THE WATCHER BY THE BRIDGE. BEING EXTRACTS FROM SOME LETTERS OF THOMAS BOWNESS WRIGHT TO HIS FRIENDS DURING THE YEARS 1917-1934. Edited by E.U. Savage.

1936 1st edition. 8vo. (160mm x 242mm). Ppviii,101. Not illustrated, title-page printed in black and red. Quarter oatmeal buckram over brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Thomas Bowness Wright was schoolmaster at Longdale School near Tebay in Westmorland and E.U. Savage, a local vicar, wrote a natural history column in the Westmorland Gazette. This book consists of a series of letters on natural history, on angling and in the English Lake District, from Wright to Savage and to Arthur Astley, Savage's successor on the newspaper. Wright was a keen angler and fly-tyer, made his own fishing tackle, and makes many references to trout and sea-trout fishing on the River Lune. This collection was published shortly after his death.