The Dry Fly Man's Handbook A Complete Manual Including The Fisherman's Entomology And The Making and Management of a Fishery

xiv 416 pages, pages uncut top edge gilt, 4to, frontis illustration and 43 plates and numerous text illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Copy number 96 of the deluxe editions which was limited to 100 copies, signed an numbered by Halford. Three bookplates to the front-end papers armorial plate of Hon John Wayland Leslie, small fishing plate of Jeffery Nordon to paste down. and armorial plate of Joseph Delaplaine Bates free end paper, Bates was the author of American fishing including Atlantic salmon flies. Publishers half dark red calf binding small chip to upper front outer corner of the spine.