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Hardcover. Condition: Very fine in fine slipcase. Edited, introduced and the appendices by Jack Heddon. Honey Dun Press, Twickenham, 1980, copy #80 of a proposed edition of 180 copies, signed by Jack Heddon. Illustrated with a tipped-in b&w frontispiece; a pasted-in facsimile letter from Henderson to Dr. Cadwalader; a tipped-in b&w illustration of "Method to store the hackle collection"; and a tipped-in b&w plate: "From the Hackle Book. Blue Red Cock, hatched April 1932, died July 1933". 8.5" x 11.75". Quarter-bound in black morocco ("case bound by Tony Sismore"), marbled paper covered boards, printed on Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Following the text are five stiff black leaves displaying 40 specimen hackles. Each plate is accompanied by a page of text describing the hackle samples. 60 pp + the five leaves of hackles. ".the story of one man's struggle to breed Old English Game-fowls for their hackles.made harder in this instance by the self-imposed objective of producing 'a medium blue cock hackle which tarnishes to a light rusty blue.". The manuscript of this book was presented to the Library of the Flyfishers' Club, and it was transcribed by John Simpson. In addition to Henderson's text, there is a good biography of Henderson by Jack Heddon; a reprint of Tom Hughes article on breeding game fowls for hackle in 'Salmon and Trout Magazine', 1928; two of Henderson's article's from the 'Journal of the Flyfishers' Club', and Heddon's appendices. Fewer than 180 copies were actually issued, and the proposed deluxe edition was never completed. An impressive book, with sample hackles. Very fine in very fine slipcase.