Author: LEONARD WEST.
Title: The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation. Being an Angler's Record of Insects Seen at the Waterside and the Method of Tying the Flies. {Vernon Pete Hidy’s Book with his Bookplate}.
Description: Liverpool. William Potter, publisher. 1921 [1912]. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Octavo (9 1/2 x 7 1/2). 163 pp. including index. Thirteen color plates showing natural and artificial flies along with color plates showing fly dressing materials, with a descriptive text plate and tissue guard facing each color plate. Five black and white plates showing fly dressing techniques and a plate showing a streamside fly dressing kit, all with tissue guards. With "Pete" Hidy’s book plate and an armorial plate as well - that of Stanley Leonard Barry, Boar War and World War 1 officer/veteran with distinguished awards. The book is bound in its original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. A very good book with a little rubbing to the cloth.

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