Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the most modern methods of dressing artificial flies for Trout and Grayling, with full illustrated directions, and containing ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the most Killing Patterns, together with a few Hints to Dry-Fly Fishermen.
Frederic M. Halford:
![[x], 136, 32 (adverts): with text illustrations, the 10 guarded plates, and with the author's printed PS tipped in. 1886 gift inscription to half-title: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. With the original deep crimson endpapers, top edge gilt, in the original binding of olive cloth over bevelled boards, ruled and titled in gilt. Minor marks to cloth, corners scuffed, spine rather dulled, ends restored. A good firm copy.](/chapel/images/items/300x1000/18861203.jpg "[x], 136, 32 (adverts): with text illustrations, the 10 guarded plates, and with the author's printed PS tipped in. 1886 gift inscription to half-title: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. With the original deep crimson endpapers, top edge gilt, in the original binding of olive cloth over bevelled boards, ruled and titled in gilt. Minor marks to cloth, corners scuffed, spine rather dulled, ends restored. A good firm copy.")
London:
Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
1886.
First edition.
[x], 136, 32 (adverts): with text illustrations, the 10 guarded plates, and with the author's printed PS tipped in. 1886 gift inscription to half-title: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. With the original deep crimson endpapers, top edge gilt, in the original binding of olive cloth over bevelled boards, ruled and titled in gilt. Minor marks to cloth, corners scuffed, spine rather dulled, ends restored. A good firm copy.
Very Good.
[Item ID: 18861203]
£320.00