Author: FRANCIS FRANCIS.
Title: A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, Etc.
Description: London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1876 [1867]. Fourth Edition. Octavo (8 x 5). [xiv], 502 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece showing the author and his Gillie. With six excruciatingly beautiful hand colored plates showing natural trout flies, artificial baits, and salmon flies with tissue guards. Plus ten additional black and white plates (as called for). Francis's book was the most complete book on angling in its day - and its day extended well into the twentieth century. Includes chapters on Bottom Fishing - Mid-Water Fishing - Artificial Fly Fishing - Lake Fishing - The Salmon - Salmon Flies - Fly Dressing - Conclusion. The book is bound in a fine binding of red morocco spine and corners with gilt titles and decorations with raised bands and red boards. Red marbled end papers. This is a bright and handsome very good book.

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