Dry Fly Fishing Theory and Practice.; With 26 plates

by F. M Halford

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Reading, England : Barry Shurlock, c1973 . First edition thus, 1/100 copies this #82 of the de luxe edition a reprint of the 1889 original . 8vo. xii, 288 pp. Illustrated, color plates. It was Halford's outstanding achievement that he completed successfully the laborious task of classifying and describing the life histories of aquatic insects and relating them to artificial flies introduction to this edition . Very good. Black cloth, gilt spine title,

• Printing: later

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