THE YOUNG ANGLER. By W. Carter Platts.

(1940) 1950 reprint. 8vo (144 x 221mm). Ppviii,228,iv[ads]. B/w frontispiece, b/w photograph plates and line illustrations. Brown leaping trout motif to green cloth, brown titles to spine.

A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train.