The Art of Angling by Kenneth Mansfield (Three Volumes)

The Art of Angling

Edited by Kenneth Mansfield

With Contributions from Prominent Angling Writers

THREE VOLUME SET - COMPLETE

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1960, black and white photographic plates, illustrations and diagrams, illustrated endpapers, colour photographic frontispieces, three volumes, hardcover

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“From the earliest times anglers have insisted that angling is an art and not a science.  IN the present age science encroaches further into the realms of angling than ever before, for precision engineering, chemical research, and the study of biology combine to improve tackle and our knowledge of fish behaviour to a degree unthought of twenty years ago.  Yet angling remains an art, for the fish themselves are as unpredictable in their actions as they ever were.  It is for that reason that these volumes appear under the simple title, The Art of Angling, a title used by half a score of anglers who lived and died before the opening of the twentieth century.”