J Arthur Hutton — Wye Salmon and Other Fish (Signed Presentation Copy)

John Sherratt And Son This is a Very Good Copy of this book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good - Dust-jacket with a couple of small nicks or snagged closed tears to the top edge of tyhe front cover and also to centre of spine.Small chipping noted along top edge of the rear cover.Rubbed to extremities.The book has been Signed with inscription by the Author on the front endpaper and it reads..... '' with best love Arthur Hutton November 1949 '' The binding of the book is nice and tight with NO hinge weakness,no leaning to spine.There is some sporadic foxing within the book and to the pre-lims and page edges.There is one remnant small tape mark to the edge of the first front endpaper. foxing to the pre-lims and to the text block edges.There are NO other previous names or inscriptions present.Comprehensive work with Frontispiece, black and white photographs, illustrations & one sketch-map.The Author Discusses the decline in the Wye salmon run during the last years of the nineteenth century, and the improvements which followed the prohibition of netting. Chapters on the different runs of salmon (small summer fish, large spring fish and much on the ecology and migrations of salmon. He also perfected a method of interpreting the patter of rings on salmon scales to establish how many years the salmon had been a smolt and how many times it had returned to the river and how long it had stayed at sea.Uncommon signed copy which was acquired from a hugely impressive library of books on Big Game Hunting and shooting in the UK Asia,The Far East,America,Canada,Africa and New Zealand.8vo 160pp First Edition 1st Impression [1949] Very Good Very Good- First Edition 1st Printing Altrincham 8vo