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

by an Old Man Well Known

$5,000 · 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, elaborately decorated gilt spine and upper cover with gilt titles, black stamped borders and decorations & gilt vignette fish and fly pictorial decorations, bevelled boards, a.e.g. Westwood & Satchell, p.3; Heckscher 18. Item #323930

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