Author: JOHN MCDONALD.
Title: The Origins of Angling.
Description: First Edition. New York. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1963. First edition. Quarto (10 x 8). 273 pp. Color plates showing the Dame's flies and the materials she used to dress them. Mr. McDoanld's work is a fascinating study of Dame Juliana Berners' contribution to the history of fly fishing, and her role in it is immense; she is the foundation on which the sport evolved in forthcoming centuries, and John McDonald was America's preeminent authority on the Dame. The book belongs in the library of folks interested in the sport's origins. The book is bound in black and cream cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. The book is fine in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear.

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