Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to the Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc. Illustrated by Lithographs and Wood Engravings by L. Haghe, T. Landseer and S. Williams, From Paintings by Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simpson and Edward Cooke

London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. sm4to, 25.5cm, The First Edition, xvii,[ii], 298,[2]p., ads., with 13 lithographed plates (Including 3 hand-coloured; 10 tinted including frontis and illustrated half title page), 9 wood-engraved text illustrations, complete with half title, in contemporary full crushed oasis morocco, gilt ruled raised bands, full gilt device and border decorations in the panels, decorated borders on double crushed crimson morocco labels, double gilt borders on the boards, rich gilt decorated wide inner dentelles, t.e.g., the outer hinges have been expertly re-touched otherwise a fine copy in a classic fine binding. Artist, hunter, angler, writer, and a friend of the literary great, including Sir Walter Scott, Scrope fished the Tweed for twenty years. His book is par-tly practical and he certainly knew all there was then to know about tackle, the tying of flies, the habits of fish, and the most successful ways to catch them. But the permanence of his work lies in his reminiscences, his conversations with other anglers and with ghillies, his fine handling of dialogue, his skill in telling stories, and in delving into folklore. Extremely well written, at times learned but never dull, his contribution to angling literature is still a classic. - The illustrations are delightful and informative. `` Starkman & Read. p123. - The Contemp-lative Man`s Recreation. Included in their list of the forty book that are the ``Landmarks in the Evolution of the Literature of Angling: 1496-1969``.