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Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, London. 1946. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good, yellowing and foxing throughout. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, with edge-chipping and small loss at head and foot of spine, in plastic protector. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Book dealer stamp on front end paper. Bumped corners. No ownership inscription. 207 pp. Frontispiece from a dry point by Ralph Boyer, plates and text illustrations from photographs and drawings by W.B. Sturgis. 207 pages clean and tight.
"PREFACE. WILLIAM BAYARD STURGIS enjoys in the United States a deservedly wide reputation as an angler, as a teacher of fly-dressing and as a writer with original ideas about angling. What he has to say on these fascinating subjects is certain, therefore, to be of absorbing interest to all fishermen over here. The title of this book possesses divers meanings. Of these none is truer and more fully earned than that which interprets the word lines, as those of approach towards the difficult problems in angling. These problems are attacked with notable independence of outlook, which proceeds not from a barren determination to be independent, but out of long experience at the waterside. About angling there is always some new thing to be learnt. Masters of the craft are rare; whereas the rest of us are still bound apprentice. Thus I have no doubt there will be discovered in these pages much wisdom, even by those the ink of whose indentures has long been dry. ERIC TAVERNER. Hoxwood, DEVON." Size: 8vo.
