Author: JOHN WALLER HILLS.
Title: A History of Fly Fishing for Trout
Description: New York. Frederick A. Stokes Company. n.d. [1923]. First American edition. Octavo (9 x 6) 244 pp. Including index. Title page printed in red and black. The first American edition was printed and bound in London. The book is a masterful treatment of the origins of sporting literature in England and France; the Dame, Walton & Cotton, The Dry Fly, Evolution of the Trout Fly, and the Literature of Fly Fishing. Trout and its history of fishing from the U.K. point of view. An important book. The book is bound in its original green cloth with gilt tiles and front cover decoration. The spine is age-toned and the gilt lettering dull; a former owner’s inscription on the front end sheet, and there is scattered pencil underlining (not bad) in the text, otherwise very good.

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