UPON A RIVER BANK. By Derek Mills. Leather-bound limited edition.

2004 1st edition de luxe issue. 8vo (151 x 221mm). Ppviii,123. Colour photographs, marbled end-papers, silk marker. Fully bound in blue leather, gilt titles and tipped-on cover illustration to upper board, gilt titles to spine.

Atlantic salmon expert Derek Mills records his exploits over a lifetime of angling. Much on fishing in Iceland for salmon, charr and trout, Scottish salmon, trout and seatrout, Yorkshire trout and grayling, plus chapters on Austria and Ireland, and angling with John Buchan, Walter Scott and Roderick Haig-Brown. Chapters include: Spring salmon; Summer on the Little Gruinard; Days in the Dales; Horse hair and Wensleydale flies; Austria; Myvatn; The long haul-in; The quest for Bleikja; The exploits of a Scots angler, James Maitland Burnett; Icelandic sea-trout and a volcanic eruption; Roderick Haig-Brown; Amid the high hills; The night dwellers; Rod, book and net; John Buchan and the Flyfishers' Club; Angling on the 39 Steps; The gorgeous grayling; A spring day in Ettrickdale; The Emerald Isle; Scott on salmon; Tweed's largest salmon; History of Scottish angling clubs; The beginning.