The Fly Fisher's Guide, Illustrated by Coloured Plates, representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature. Bound Together with: Thomas Frederick Salter's The Angler's Guide, being A Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: containing the Whole Art of Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, Fly-Fishing, and Trimmer-Angling, founded on forty years' practice and observations. Second Edition. With very considerable Additions, Loval Descriptions, Glossary of Technical Terms, and Indes. Illustrated With Wood Engravings.
Liverpool & London. Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris's Widow and Brothers & Published for the Author by Haines and Turner. Sold by T. Tegg, No. 111, Cheapside. 1815 & 1816. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 21cm, first trade edition, Salter: Second Edition, viii,150 & xxxi,217p., with 8 hand-colour plates including frontis, and 15 engraved plates (inc. frontis) and many engraved fish text illustrations, one plate with contemporary notation on the verso, a few plates have some foxing, marbled edges, rebound in maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, very good to fine thus. two volumes bound in one. Westwood & Satchell p20. The very scarce first edition of a classic and very early book on fly-dressing. ". it should be disseminated amongst Friends only, (for as such he has been accustomed to consider every brother of the Angle)." (Author's Preface). A limited edition of 12 quarto copies was also published. The book went into numerous editions and a version was still in print in 2006. The hand-coloured illustrations of salmon and trout flies are striking. Item #39561
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