Author: SYLVESTER NEMES.
Title: Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies. A Survey of the Literature Complete with Original Patterns 1747-Present. {Signed by the Author with a Fly Dressed by Mr. Nemes}.
Description: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 2004. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). 173 pp. Signed by the author on the half-title and with a soft-hackle fly dressed by Mr. Nemes on a size 12 gold barbless hook. A multitude of clear and precise color plates showing many of the fly patterns with their dressing materials described within the text. Includes chapters on most of the great English angling authors and their contributions - the Bowlkers - George Scotcher - George Bainbridge - W. Carroll - George Pulman - Alfred Ronalds - G. E. M. Skues, etc. as well as several American authors, Paul Young - James Leisenring and Theodore Gordon among them. The book is bound in black cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

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