Platts William Carter (81 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1969). (1940) 1969 4th edition. 8vo. (145 x 223mm). Ppviii,229+2pp ads. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Cream boards, spine titled in dark brown. Rather tanned and smells of tobacco but a good copy in tanned and used dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. *What remains of the rear of the dust-wrapper is far worse than what can be seen from the front view of the book. .

Fourth Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 229p, 9 plates ill(incl 1 col) 22cm. Previous ed. (B65-6851) 1965. Includes index. Subjects; Fishing, Juvenile literature. Education. Platts, William Carter (1864-1944). 3 Kg.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1927) 1977 new edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs & illustrations. New introduction by Wilson Stephens. Dark green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning to end-papers and edges, good-plus in used dust-wrapper. A well planned book on developing, managing and preserving trout streams. Chapters include: Mountain stream and moorland river; Boulder dams; The lessons of the dams; Board dams; Stake-and-wattle and bag-work dams; The food problem on the mountain stream; The larder of the mountain stream further considered; Frogs and snails; The mountain stream - with variations; Artificial tarns; Making a tarn; The moorland river; The undesirable alien; Netting out chub and grayling; Stocking with food; Minnows and mills; Wire weirs and fly culture; Hatching, rearing and stocking; One of the new difficulties; Hints on preservation; The river-watcher; Counting the cost; Conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). (1938) 1947 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 224mm). Ppx,242. B/w photographs. Red cloth, silver gilt titles to spine. Spine ends bumped. Slight foxing to end-papers and edges, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1927) 1977 new edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs & illustrations. New introduction by Wilson Stephens. Dark green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in oddly price-clipped dust-wrapper. A well planned book on developing, managing and preserving trout streams. Chapters include: Mountain stream and moorland river; Boulder dams; The lessons of the dams; Board dams; Stake-and-wattle and bag-work dams; The food problem on the mountain stream; The larder of the mountain stream further considered; Frogs and snails; The mountain stream - with variations; Artificial tarns; Making a tarn; The moorland river; The undesirable alien; Netting out chub and grayling; Stocking with food; Minnows and mills; Wire weirs and fly culture; Hatching, rearing and stocking; One of the new difficulties; Hints on preservation; The river-watcher; Counting the cost; Conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1940) 1950 reprint. 8vo (144 x 221mm). Ppviii,228,iv[ads]. B/w frontispiece, b/w photograph plates & line illustrations. Brown leaping trout motif to green cloth, brown titles to spine. Slight staining to cloth, slight browning to end-papers and edges, good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1927) 1977 new edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs & illustrations. New introduction by Wilson Stephens. Dark green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used, but complete dust-wrapper. A well-planned book on developing, managing and preserving trout streams. Chapters include: Mountain stream and moorland river; Boulder dams; The lessons of the dams; Board dams; Stake-and-wattle and bag-work dams; The food problem on the mountain stream; The larder of the mountain stream further considered; Frogs and snails; The mountain stream - with variations; Artificial tarns; Making a tarn; The moorland river; The undesirable alien; Netting out chub and grayling; Stocking with food; Minnows and mills; Wire weirs and fly culture; Hatching, rearing and stocking; One of the new difficulties; Hints on preservation; The river-watcher; Counting the cost; Conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1955 reprint. 8vo (143 x 221mm). Ppviii,227+ 4pp ads. B/w photographs and line drawings. Green boards with upper board vignette and spine title in red. Probable ex-library, usual faults. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1940) 1965 3rd edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Ppviii,229 + 2pp ads. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs and line illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in blue gilt. Faint date stamp to front end-paper. Slight foxing to edges, internally very good. Lacks dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). (1938) 1942 reprint. 8vo (145 x 228mm). Ppx,242 + 2pp ads. B/w photographs. National Ecomomy binding in brown cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. Various minor faults. Good only in frayed dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1954). (1938) 1954 edition. 8vo (145 x 226mm). Ppx,242. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in silver gilt. Boards bowed and stained, pages slightly creased. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1944 reprint. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppviii,227+ 4pp ads. B/w photographs & line illustrations. Green cloth with upper board vignette & spine title printed in brown. Slight browning to edges and end-papers, spine faded else good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Jacket. Previous owner's personal bookplate and ink inscription. 1942 reprinting. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Fourth Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 229p, 9 plates ill(incl 1 col) 22cm. Previous ed. (B65-6851) 1965. Includes index. Subjects; Fishing, Juvenile literature. Education. Platts, William Carter (1864-1944). 1 Kg.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1940) 1961 2nd edition. 1962 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Ppviii,229+2pp ads. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Buff boards with vignette and spine title in light green. Name to front paste-down. Slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in price-clipped, clean dust-wrapper with unobtrusive name to front. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1955 reprint. 8vo (143 x 221mm). Ppviii,227+ 4pp ads. B/w photographs and line drawings. Cream boards with upper board vignette and spine title in red. Boards slightly bumped, spine slightly faded, slight browning to end-papers. Good copy in torn dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1940) 1961 2nd edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Ppviii,229+2pp ads. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Buff boards with vignette and spine title in light green. Boards slightly bumped and used, browning to end-papers. Good-plus in soiled dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). (1938) 1947 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 224mm). Ppx,242. B/w photographs. Red cloth, silver gilt titles to spine. Slight use and browning but good copy. Dust-wrapper remnant laid in. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1940) 1950 reprint. 8vo (144 x 221mm). Ppviii,228,iv[ads]. B/w frontispiece, b/w photograph plates & line illustrations. Brown leaping trout motif to green cloth, brown titles to spine. Slight staining to cloth, slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in poor dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1940) 1965 3rd edition. Ppviii,229[ads]. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Fawn boards with green stamped fish motif. Prize label, spotting to eps. Good-plus in poor dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1955 reprint. 8vo (143 x 221mm). Ppviii,227+ 4pp ads. B/w photographs and line drawings. Buff boards with upper board vignette and spine title in red. D/w 10s. 6d. net. Slightly tanned but good-plus in poor, tape-marked dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1954). (1938) 1954 edition. 8vo (145 x 226mm). Ppx,242. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in silver gilt. Slight use, ex libris, browning to end-papers and edges, small tear to one preliminary. Good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). (1938) 1947 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 224mm). Ppx,242. B/w photographs. Red cloth, silver gilt titles to spine. Minor faults, slight use and browning / bookplate / smells of tobacco. Good copy in used / frayed dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1940) 1965 3rd edition. 8vo (146 x 221mm). Ppviii,229[ads]. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Fawn boards with green stamped fish motif. Gift inscription to paste-down, spotting to eps. Good-plus in chipped and frayed dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1940) 1961 2nd edition. 1962 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Ppviii,229+2pp ads. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs & line illustrations. Buff boards with vignette and spine title in light green. Slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in intact dust-wrapper. 12s. 6d. net. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 228mm). Ppx,242 + 2pp ads. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 228mm). Ppx,242 + 2pp ads. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some use, names to end-paper else good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. Article on the life of William Carter Platts enclosed. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2014). (1939) 2009 new edition (2014 re-issue). 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxxii,210 + 1pp ad. B/w photograph plates and illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Originally published in 1939 when William Carter Platts was 75 years old, Grayling Fishing was written partly to redress the balance, as he saw it, that despite a great interest from anglers in this fish, no books had been written on the subject for over thirty years; and partly as a result of a lifetime's affection for 'the lady of the stream.' He covers the subject in much detail, from its history, origins and habitat to tackle and bait selection and its presence in the kitchen, and not only covers grayling in this country but a chapter is dedicated to the species in America. A fascinating and comprehensive treatise on fishing for grayling by a passionate angler and writer. This edition has a new scholarly and informative Introduction by John Austin. This printing was limited to 500 copies for the Flyfisher's Classic Library, only 200 copies of which were actually bound. The remaining 300 copies have been issued in 2014 in a new dust-wrapper. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1955 reprint. 8vo (143 x 221mm). Ppviii,227+ 4pp ads. B/w photographs and line drawings. Buff boards with upper board vignette and spine title in red. D/w 10s. 6d. net. Slight tanning to edges but good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience who had perhaps only fished locally but who could now visit more or less anywhere by train. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 228mm). Ppx,242 + 2pp ads. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Pencil notes about flies to rear end-paper. Edges foxed, good-plus in rather used and frayed dust-wrapper *. "This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel. .