The Medlar Press
We are quite pleased to announce the availability of Medlar Press titles here in the United States exclusively through Meadow Run Press.  It is due to the close relationship between Meadow Run Press and The Medlar Press - publisher to publisher - that these titles are now being made available for the first time.

The Medlar Press is the press of Jon Ward-Allen, printer, typographer, designer, and consummate angler. They are without question the most elegant and interesting angling books produced in England in decades. They are distinguished by the scope of subject matter - from revisited classics to quite fresh original writing - and the extraordinary design and production elements which make Medlar Press books essential to any collection. They are printed in small, varying editions, some printed letterpress, bound in cloth and leather, most slipcased, and all hand numbered by the publisher in England. Only a very small number of copies will be offered for sale in the States.

We are currently offering the following two titles and we will be announcing additional Medlar Press publications in the months to come. These are outstanding books.  

The Journal of A.J. Lane

It is not often that today's angler can read first hand an original angling manuscript from over a hundred and fifty years ago. The author, writing in 1843, describes the fish, the fishing, and the flies of southern England in great detail and the original manuscript is faithfully reproduced here including over forty pages of finely-rendered watercolor painting as color plates. 

A companion volume of transcript with an introduction of the text is included and both volumes are in a single slipcase. The book is beautifully bound in a full black leather

3 1/2 x 5 1/2  / Color Plates / Slipcased

$200 U.S. Postpaid

Autumns On The Spey

By A.E. Knox

A.E. Knox's 1872 classic has long been valued by salmon fishers for its fascinating and unique list of Spey flies. Within a generation, the flies he treasured would be eclipsed by the gaudy standard patterns so beloved by Kelson and Hale. The author describes some vigorous fishing along the River Spey when it was nearly silver with fish, and it remains one of the swiftest flowing and most beautiful stretches of water flowing in Scotland. This is the elegiac account of salmon fishing when it truly was a great adventure.

5 x 8 / Slipcased / Color and Black-and-White Plates / 154 pages

Clothbound edition of 660 Copies - $90 U.S. Postpaid

Leatherbound Edition of 139 Copies - $195 U.S. Postpaid