Author: GEORGE A. B. DEWAR.
Title: The Book of the Dry Fly.
Description: London. Adam and Charles Black. 1910 [1897]. Second Edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2). 277 pp. including index. Colored frontispiece showing a variety of natural flies with descriptive tissue overlay. There are eight attractive color plates showing rivers scenes - the Avon - Test - Itchen - Derbyshire Wye - Darenth, etc. Mr. Dewar offers good advice on how to fish for picky trout and the lessons remain valid today. The book is bound in the original light green cloth with black titles. The end papers are browned a bit, otherwise this is a bright, clean, very good book.

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