T.E. North-Country Flies.

by PRITT

£500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

With original fly PRITT, T.E. North-Country Flies. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, Rivington. 1886. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt lettering and vignette of a fly to upper board, gilt lettering to spine and upper edge, bevelled edges; pp. [7] 8-63 + [1, ads]; 11 lithographed hand-coloured plates; previous owner's fly fixed to pastedown ; beginning to split around gutter of p.39; bruising and rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners; slight foxing to front end paper and half title; but otherwise very good. Second edition, first published the year before in a limited edition entitled Yorkshire Trout Flies . Scarce. An important work which attempts to codify the distinctive northern English method of fly-tying using soft hackle wet flies. SKU: 2120363

• Binding: Hardcover

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