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. This item is unavailable.
Published by London Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1886, 1886
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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First edition of this important work. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and bevelled edges. Edges are bumped. Creasing to spine and wear top and bottom. 8vo. Binding is beginning to loosen. Pages are age tanned but clean. Beautiful hand-coloured engravings. One page, showing Crawhaw's Special Dyes, is detached but present. Previous owners have signed the fep, beginning in 1889 and ending in 1978 A good copy.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- 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
- Author
- Frederic M Halford
- Publisher
- London Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1886
- Publication year
- 1886
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo.