A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making”

by An Old Man…with editorial notes…by W.H. Aldam by W. H Aldam

$5,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, second issue. Title page printed in red and black, title and text printed within double red rules. 2 completed flies and 23 flies with dressing materials displayed in 22 sunken mounts on six leaves. xiii, xiv, blank , xv, errata , 91 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Head of spine deflty repaired. A bright fresh copy. Bookplate of Arthur Howard Thompson. Preserved in red cloth solander box by Aquarius.

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