THE BOOK OF THE FLY ROD. Edited by Hugh Sheringham & John C. Moore. Second edition.

Sheringham (Hugh Tempest) & Moore (John Cecil), Editors.

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). (1931) 1936 2nd edition. Large 4to (225 x 290mm). Ppxvi,174. Illustrated with 4 coloured plates of fish and flies, and 8 b&w plates by George Sheringham. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Foxing to edges, end-papers and sporadical throughout, edgse of boards slightly faded but a good copy remnant dust-wrapper. A beautifully produced book (in all of its editions), divided into sections on game, coarse and saltwater flyfishing, and including a memoir of H.T. Sheringham who died while the book was being edited. Contents include:- De Maximis by Henry van Dyke; "Out of Macedonia" by William Radcliffe; If we started afresh by G.E.M. Skues; The travelling companion by Arthur Ransome; The fly-rod in North America by Ferris Greenslet; Fly-fishing in Norway by Knut Dahl; Salmon and sea trout by W.L. Calderwood; Salmon fishing in Canada by F. Gray Griswold; The magnificence of the chub by John C. Moore; Black bass by H.D. Turing; The fly-rod in the sea by Arthur F. Bell; A talk about it with Mr. Arthur N. Gilbey; The sound of it by Harry Plunket Greene; The colour of it by Sir Charles Holmes; The poetry of it by Eric Parker; De Minimis by John C. Moore. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BOOK OF THE FLY ROD. Edited by Hugh Sheringham & John C. Moore. Second edition.
• Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936
• Binding: Hardcover