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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition thus. Large 4to (233 x 305mm). Pp216. Colour photographs throughout, b/w photographs, colour paintings of fish by Dr. Dietrich Burkel, foreword by Malcolm Greenhalgh, pictures and text to end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper. "The fish illustrations by Dr. Dietrich Burkel and some of the diagrams and photographs appeared in the Encyclopedia of Fishing in the British Isles, first published in 1977 and reprinted, with revisions in 1982, eleven times. All other illustrations and photographs and all text are new to this book." This is an interesting introduction to angling with chapters contributed by some noted anglers, with no attempt made to sell anything to the unsuspecting reader. Includes many good colour illustrations of fish by Dietrich Burkel. Chapters are: Coarse fishing for pleasure, by Allen Edwards; Match fishing to win, by Tom Pickering; Sea fishing - boats, by Michael Prichard; Sea angling from the shore, by Alan Yates; Fly fishing for trout, by Bob Carnill; Salmon - amazing and marvellous, by Crawford Little. . Seller Inventory # 37685
Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition thus. Large 4to (233 x 305mm). Pp216. Colour photographs throughout, b/w photographs, colour paintings of fish by Dr. Dietrich Burkel, foreword by Malcolm Greenhalgh, pictures and text to end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Possible ex-libris label, slight use but very good in slightly used / clipped dust-wrapper. "The fish illustrations by Dr. Dietrich Burkel and some of the diagrams and photographs appeared in the Encyclopedia of Fishing in the British Isles, first published in 1977 and reprinted, with revisions in 1982, eleven times. All other illustrations and photographs and all text are new to this book." This is an interesting introduction to angling with chapters contributed by some noted anglers, with no attempt made to sell anything to the unsuspecting reader. Includes many good colour illustrations of fish by Dietrich Burkel. Chapters are: Coarse fishing for pleasure, by Allen Edwards; Match fishing to win, by Tom Pickering; Sea fishing - boats, by Michael Prichard; Sea angling from the shore, by Alan Yates; Fly fishing for trout, by Bob Carnill; Salmon - amazing and marvellous, by Crawford Little. . Seller Inventory # 34713
Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition thus. Large 4to (233 x 305mm). Pp216. Colour photographs throughout, b/w photographs, colour paintings of fish by Dr. Dietrich Burkel, foreword by Malcolm Greenhalgh, pictures and text to end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. From the library of angling author Barrie Rickards, with his name to the half-title. Slight use but very good in slightly used, spine-faded dust-wrapper. "The fish illustrations by Dr. Dietrich Burkel and some of the diagrams and photographs appeared in the Encyclopedia of Fishing in the British Isles, first published in 1977 and reprinted, with revisions in 1982, eleven times. All other illustrations and photographs and all text are new to this book." This is an interesting introduction to angling with chapters contributed by some noted anglers, with no attempt made to sell anything to the unsuspecting reader. Includes many good colour illustrations of fish by Dietrich Burkel. Chapters are: Coarse fishing for pleasure, by Allen Edwards; Match fishing to win, by Tom Pickering; Sea fishing - boats, by Michael Prichard; Sea angling from the shore, by Alan Yates; Fly fishing for trout, by Bob Carnill; Salmon - amazing and marvellous, by Crawford Little. . Seller Inventory # 59581