Author: Frederick M. Halford
Title: Dry Fly Entomology
Description: London, Vinton and Co, 1897 . First edition. Leather. A pleasing copy of the first edition of "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing" Frederick M. Halford's guide to the dry fly technique on English chalk streams The first trade edition of Frederick Halford's classic work, published a decade after his influential work 'Floating Flies and How to Dress Them&apos.Illustrated with twenty-eight plates, ten of which are hand coloured and retaining their original tissue guards, and with a further folding table. Collated, complete.Halford provides an account of 'A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout & Grayling', and introduces the methodology of English chalk stream dry fly angling to readers in an informative and descriptive style. Rebound in a quarter morocco binding, retaining the publisher's original cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent, with pictorial gilt detailing to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .
Keywords: trout fishing fly fishing insects angling fly fishing Not Stated
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Title: Dry Fly Entomology
Description: London, Vinton and Co, 1897 . First edition. Leather. A pleasing copy of the first edition of "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing" Frederick M. Halford's guide to the dry fly technique on English chalk streams The first trade edition of Frederick Halford's classic work, published a decade after his influential work 'Floating Flies and How to Dress Them&apos.Illustrated with twenty-eight plates, ten of which are hand coloured and retaining their original tissue guards, and with a further folding table. Collated, complete.Halford provides an account of 'A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout & Grayling', and introduces the methodology of English chalk stream dry fly angling to readers in an informative and descriptive style. Rebound in a quarter morocco binding, retaining the publisher's original cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent, with pictorial gilt detailing to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .
Keywords: trout fishing fly fishing insects angling fly fishing Not Stated
Price: GBP 950.00 = appr. US$ 1356.59 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 845F29
- Book number: 845F29
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