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CHAPMAN, W.S, Memories of a Life spent between the Bread and the Fishes and the Days when all Cares were forgotten.
[Reading: privately printed, n.d., ca. late 1920s]. (COARSE FISHING) 8vo. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. [2], 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. Original green textured cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper board, speckled edges, binder's ticket of Knill & Sons, Reading. Fine. ΒΆ Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher, and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes, ponds, and local rivers, including the Kennet and Thames, as well as misadventures in boats, dense fogs, notable catches of Pike and Thames trout, and an incident of river pollution. The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and does not include the two photographs of sea fishing off the Cornwall coast. Curious, interesting and uncommon
Offered for US$ 600.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 224036