Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

With frontispiece in colour and one hundred and fifty line drawings by the author.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. 284 + [1] pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with blind stamped block on front board and addition of gold block of school arms. Rough cut edges. Some wear to extremities and foxing of title page; otherwise a very good copy. Prize label of Chatham House School, Ramsgate, 1935. Bookseller's label of Blinko and Sons Ltd. 25-27 Queen-st. Ramsgate on rear pastedown. Illustrated by colour frontispiece and by 150 text figures. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Survey of sea fishing with particular reference to British and Scottish practice. It includes chapters on the folklore and superstitions of fishermen, festivals and blessings of the sea, the law, and trawl, drift net, line and cod fishing. Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975), born in Southsea, was a maritime artist and author, who also wrote on architecture and religion. He moved to north east Scotland where his mother came from and lived in Macduff, 1937-52 (hence the subject of the frontispiece), later becoming involved in Scottish nationalist affairs.