Author: GEOFFREY NICKSON.
Title: A Portrait of Salmon Fishing. {Deluxe Edition Signed}.
Description: Rugby, Warwickshire. Antony Atha Publishers, Ltd. 1976. Printed by Jolly & Barber, Ltd. Rugby. Oblong Quarto (9 x 11). 112 pp. including acknowledgments. Deluxe Edition. Book number 27 of 200 copies published in this format. Signed by Geoffrey Nickson and the artist, Tim Havers, on the limitation page. Foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir. With 37 attractive color plates after paintings by Tim Havers showing a variety of river angling scenes in England, Scotland and Wales. Accompanying the color portraits are pithy and lyrical quotes from the best writers on salmon fishing, including Lord Grey,William Scrope, A. H. Chaytor, A. H. E. Wood, Arthur Ransome, Izaak Walton, J. W. Hills, Henry Williamson, and others. Interspersed in the text are essays on salmon flies, fishing tactics, and the salmon by Geoffrey Nickson. The book is elegantly bound in full burgundy morocco with gilt titles on the spine and front cover along with a gold salmon. Inner gilt dentelles (lace). All edges gilt. Pictorial cloth slip case. The book is fine in a very good slip case with light edge wear.

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