Author: HUGH SHERINGHAM; JOHN C. MOORE [EDITORS].
Title: The Book of the Fly-Rod. {Deluxe Edition}.
Description: London. Eyre & Spottiswoode Publishers, Limited & Boston & New York by Houghton Mifflin Company. 1931. Limited Edition. Book number 62A of 70 copies offered for sale in the U.S. Signed by George Sheringham on the limitation leaf. Quarto (11 x 9). xv, [xvi], [2] 3-173 [174] pp. Illustrated by George Sheringham. Illustrated chromolithograph frontispiece showing a variety of feather-wing Atlantic salmon flies, with tissue guard. Eight hand-coloured plates showing fish and fishing scenes, all with tissue guards. Plus there are four color lithograph plates highlighting several sport fishes with tissue guards. Includes "A Memory of Hugh Sheringham" [who died before publication] penned by Guy C. Pollock. Text drawings and vignettes. There are chapters on Out of Macedonia by William Radcliffe - If We Started Afresh by G. E. M. Skues - Salmon and Sea Trout by W. L. Calderwood - A Talk About It by Mr. Arthur N. Gilbey - The Sound of It by Harry Plunket Greene - The Colour of It by Sir Charles Holmes - The Poetry of It by Eric Parker, etc. With the bookplate of Wilbur G. Downs, who was a renowned naturalist, virologist and clinical professor of epidemiology and public health professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health, and he was a dedicated fly fisherman. The book is bound in vellum spine with gilt rules and titles and green cloth. With the original slip case with titling label on the side panel. A very nice book. Fine in a near very good slip case with some edge wear.

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