- The River Dove with Some Quiet Thoughts on The Happy Practice of Angling.

London. William Pickering. 1847. First Edition Thus. 8vo. (7 x 5). 296 pp. If you can find your way through this book and not be fast asleep within 30 pages, I'll buy you a drink sometime. The structure and text is in the manner of Walton and Cotton but Mr. Anderdon is not quite in the same league; that is to say, he probably had more than a few drinks while composing this gem. But still, it has its merits, similar to those of Thomas Kinkade's homey and smarmy pastoral scenes, compleat with a gingerbread house set in the woods enveloped in chimney smoke. But don't let me put you off, perhaps you'll discover a passage or two herein which you'll find enlightening or even interesting. The book is bound in its original brown cloth with paper titling label on the spine. The book isn't a beauty - it's stained, especially so on the back cover, and the text pages are somewhat stiff but clean. A Good book.