Author: GEORGE M. KELSON.
Title: The Salmon Fly. How to Dress It and How to Use It. {Deluxe Edition}.
Description: Devon, England. The Flyfishers' Classic Library. 1995. The Centenary Deluxe Edition. Book number 5 of 55 copies published. Thick 8vo. (9 x 6). 510 plus 45 pp. of illustrated advertisements. With a size 7/0 gut-eye salmon fly, Kelson's "Golden Eagle", exquisitely dressed by Kim Rasmussen of Denmark, signed by him, mounted within an oval recess inside the front cover. Introduction by John Buckland. Eight color plates of salmon flies. Portrait frontispiece of George Kelson. Black and white plates and text drawings. The book is bound in full Royal Nigerian purple morocco with gilt titles and decorations with marbled end papers, all edges gilt, and is kept in a matching purple cloth drop-back box lined with black silk moiré, with gilt titles and decorations. An exquisite and elegant book. Fine in a near fine slip case with a light bump on the corner of the slipcase.

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