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

$13,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, second issue. Two chromolithograph plates after James Poole, 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, upper cover with elaborate gilt and blind design and title, a.e.g. Bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield. Faintest rubbing at

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