BAMBOO RODMAKING BOOK The Exchange & Mart Book of Rodmaking Wilfred Louis Foster

Description

One copy of
The Exchange & Mart Book of Rodmaking
by
Wilfred Louis Foster (Whitefish Press, 2020)
BOOK DETAILS
4.25" x 6.875" Softcover • 102 Total Pages • B&W Illustrations
ABOUT THE BOOK
In 1922, Wilfred Louis Foster anonymously penned a book on tackle making for the famous Exchange and Mart publishers entitled Fishing Tackle Making and Repairing. Foster was an expert on the subject of rod making, being the son of William H. Foster and the grandson of the legendary David Foster of the famed Ashbourne rodmaking firm of Foster Bros. A simple book designed for the common man, it laid out the process for crafting a fishing rod in easy to understand terms. The book went through at least six editions and was in print for over three decades. Here reprinted for the first time is the entire text of his rod making writings, as well as additional articles on rod making culled from the pages of the always entertaining Exchange and Mart newspaper. It includes an introduction on the relationship between the Exchange and Mart and angling in Britain by Dr. Todd E.A. Larson. This is a volume in the Second Series of Fly Angler's Desktop Library, which will deal specifically with British and European cane rod building.
ABOUT THE FLY ANGLER'S DESKTOP LIBRARY
The Fly Angler's Desktop Library is a return to the Golden Age of Books, when bigger was not necessarily better. It was a time when publishers like Borzoi Books lovingly crafted beautiful, compact volumes. Now, we can recapture the classic look and feel of these wonderful books in a new series dedicated to bringing out long forgotten treatises as well as new, original works on the art and beauty of fly angling. At a compact 4.5" x 6.875" size, these books are designed to be proudly displayed on the desktop, just like in the olden days. With learned and interesting introductions and appendices of additional materials, you won't want to miss any of these little gems. Color coded hardcovers by subject. Red for rod making, fly tying and fly tackle; Blue for general fly angling; Green for history and biography.