ORANGE OTTER

By Christopher Knowles

Small mark to the gilt on the letter "e" of "Otter" on the front board otherwise a fine (actually brand new and unread) limited edition hardback. Number 155 of an edition limited to only 500 copies.

2006 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 223mm). Pp302. B/w photographs. Two-tone brown boards, upper board titled in gilt and black and with tipped-on illustration of fly, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 500 cloth-bound copies.

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"When Courtney Williams published A Dictionary of Trout Flies in 1949, the Rev. Edward Powell of Munslow, Shropshire had more listings in the index than any other name except Pritt and Ronalds. Christopher Knowles, with the help of sixty years of Powell's fishing diaries, acquaints us with the man behind the patterns and at the same time reveals a whole era of fishing theory and practice that was in danger of disappearing from view. In so doing, he creates a fascinating, highly readable, portrait of Welsh Border fishing and its main characters." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- The author; Foreword; Introduction; How it all began; From rags to rectories; Pools I used to know; Over the border; The master; Men that made a man of me; Mrs Farrington's cock; 'OO'; Doctors and paragons; The dry fly nonsense; Major tactics on minor streams; No-see-um nymphs; Thymallica; Diary, dear diary; Rod and line; Piscator non solum piscatur; The man behind the rod; The fishing line; Thoughts that once were mine; The end of the line; Appendix I: Articles by Rev. E. Powell, T.A. Powell and Michael Powell; Appendix II: Fly dressings devised, adopted or used by Rev. E. Powell; Bibliography; Notes to chapters; Index; Index to artificial flies; Index to natural flies; Index to feathers; Index to rivers.