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 · No longer available

First edition

First edition, second Issue later state or the “Unauthorized Issue” without the 2 chromolithograph plates . 2 completed flies and 23 flies with dressing materials displayed in 22 sunken mounts on six leaves. Title page printed in red and black, title and text printed within double red rules. xiii, xiv, blank , xv, errata , 91 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Some shelf wear, some minor foxing, inner hinge

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