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[8], 138, [6] pp. With 8 tipped-in color plates from watercolors by Thomas Aquinas Daly. 11x8½, hand-bound in quarter cloth and boards covered with hand-made paper employing actual leaves from trees, paper cover and spine labels, ricepaper endpapers, slipcase. No. 35 of 250 copies, designed by Kevin Begos, Jr.

Signed by Baker and Daly in the colophon. Elegant printing of Baker's lyrical, anecdotal essays (hailed by Bruns as "Lovely writing and a sweet book to read") on trout, bass, salmon, the joys of angling and of life, first published in 1965 (Bruns B29).