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

by an Old Man Well Known

$15,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. 2 chromolithographic plates from a watercolor by James Poole. 22 sunken mounts with specimens of flies and fly tying material. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Some rubbing at head. Provenance: James Poole presentation inscription from the editor ; J. Bedford gift inscription ; Lindley Eberstadt letter and his sporting bookplate loosely inserted . Custom morocco backed clamshell box. Westwood &

• Binding: Leather

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