Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling, With Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most KIlling Patterns, Together Wi
Author:
HALFORD, FREDERIC M
Title:
Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling, With Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most KIlling Patterns, Together Wi
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1886
Description:
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, teg, deckled page edges- some pages remain uncut, (12) + 136pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, illus, coloured plates- counted & all present, VG- (moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor scuffing to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling throughout, quite a few tissue guards for plates ripped out- plates still in v good condition, occasional cracking to gutters, pgs to rear have had some rough attempts to cut the uncut pages resulting in rough closed tearing to page edges, moderate foxing to terminals)
Keywords:
first editions hobbies fly fishing flyfishing lures flies floating dressing trout grayling illustrated antiquarian books
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