TROUT. By Ernest Schwiebert. Illustrated by the author.

(1978) 1979 UK deluxe edn. Two volumes. 4to. Ppxviii,878,ii,879-1745. Colour plates and b/w illustrations by author, bibliography. Blue buckram / slipcase.

The evolution of flyfishing; American species of trout and grayling; Physiology, habitat and behaviour; The tools of the trade; Casting, wading and other primary skills; Trout strategies, techniques and tactics. Includes a 239-page section on rods and rod-building*. This copy is No. 261 from the British de luxe edition which was limited to750 copies, each signed and numbered by the author, and including an actualspecimen fly in a sunken mount. Bound in blue buckram and in a buckram-covered slipcase. The spines of these books are invariably flattened because of their great weight and size. The cloth of the spine and the slipcase are almost always faded.