Ronald W. Coleby – the compleat northern angler

RONALD W. Coleby of Houghton in Cumbria, who died last year, just a week after completing the memoir of his wife that had occupied much of his time in recent years, became a full-time bookseller in 1972, specialising in hunting, shooting and, above all, fishing.

An encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject was shared with customers and fellow dealers in long telep…

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