My reprint copy of Capt. Hamilton's book arrived yesterday and I must say I'm quite surprised by the book I got for so little money. It is an excellently bound hardcover book (not leather bound but nice anyway) with what appears to be burnished gold leaf edging on the pages. The quality of the reprint is excellent. The color plates have that old timey hand colored appearance and the black and white plates look wonderful. What a nice surprise.

I got the book from http://www.chartingnature.com/books.cfm?book=B3708 for $14.09. What a deal.

REE

PS. Jeff, after reading the forward to the book, it stated that Hamilton's book was not the very first book on NZ trouting. That was W.H. Spackman's Trout in New Zealand, where to go and how to catch them published in Wellington in 1892.