It is now a long time since a Library of volumes on Sport and Games was first put before the public.

Editors' introduction.

It was under a birch by the River Ettrick, readers of Scope will remember, that Harry Otter laid his five-pounder and covered it with bracken from the sun.

Foreword.

If there is a document the discovery of which might be supposed to stimulate the liveliest emotions among collectors of old books on angling, it would be the original manuscript from which the author of the Boke of St. Albans compiled his (or her) Treatys of ffysshynge with an Angle.

Chapter One - The literature of coarse fishing, by Eric Parker.