GOLDEN DAYS From the Fishing-Log of a Painter in Brittany by ROMILLY FEDDEN.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1919, First American Edition.

Description: Brown paper covers with gilt lettering and design on cover and cloth spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated frontis.

Condition: Very good. Cover has light shelf wear and bumped corners and spine. Foxing on frontis and title page, otherwise pages are clean and tight. 

Pages: 233

Size: 5.25" x 7.75"

Here is a book full of quiet charm and humour, written by one who is evidently not only an artist and a sportsman, but also a true lover and observer of Nature and her ways. The angler will be fascinated by the vivid descriptions of trout-and salmon-fishing in Brittany. There are no improbable fisherman's yarns to invite his scepticism, but their place is taken by some delightful stories of saints and miracles drawn from the Breton folk-lore, so that the book appeals quite as much to the general reader as to the piscatorial fraternity. It is a pleasant narrative, well suited to while away a winter evening at the fireside and to conjure up visions of sunlit meadows, fragrant pinewoods, and murmuring streams, though tinged, alas ! by that vein of sadness which must colour the day-dreams of all of us at the present time, and especially of those who, like the author, have witnessed at close quarters the tragedy of the last few years. (Nature)

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