Author: JOHN MCDONALD.
Title: The Origins of Angling. {Signed by Mr. McDonald}.
Description: New York. Lyons & Burford, Publishers. 1997 [1963]. Facsimile Edition. Quarto (10 ½ x 8). 273 pp. Signed by John McDonald on the title page. Color plates of the Dame's flies. This is John McDonald’s fascinating study of Dame Juliana Berners' contribution to the history of sport fishing. If you fish, the book should be in your library - because there are few seminal books in the literature of fly fishing as important as this. If you sometimes think about how sport fishing began, then you should bone-up on its origins - and there's no better place to start than here. The 500 year old fly patterns described and shown herein are just as effective today - does that surprise you? The fish haven't changed, only the fly marketers who create endless new killer flies; down the road a piece, today's killers will be tossed on the pile of moth-eaten relics, not worthy of consideration by future fly fishermen, replaced by new generations of can't-do-without patterns - I get dizzy thinking about it. Enough sermonizing; my passions get the best of me. The book is bound in red and cream cloth with white titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

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