Art Fly Making by Blacker, Signed (1 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). (1842) 1994 FFCL edition of 1855 edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (162 x 243mm). Ppxxxviii,259. 17 Colour plates and three b/w photographs. Fully bound in black goatskin, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Presented in a silk-lined gold-blocked buckram clam-shell box. Fine unread copies in presentation box, the box showing faint signs of use, faint rust-spot to fly-mount. An unnumbered out-of series copy from an edition of 55 De Luxe copies, each with a fully dressed salmon fly (Blacker's No. 2). The fly-mount is initialled "H.S." by Henrik Strandgaard, and the title-page verso has "Publisher's Copy, JK '94." JK was Justin Knowles, the founder of the FFCL. The Amazing Mr Blacker is not numbered or signed. The Strandgaard De luxe limited edition of 55 copies with fly and a copy of "The Amazing Mr Blacker" by Henrik Strandgaard included in the same box. Blacker set up as a fly-dresser and tackle-dealer in Soho in the 1820's. His exciting salmon-fly patterns were among the first to use exotic materials. His book was first published in 1842, then re-issued in 1855 with wonderful new colour plates. Each copy incorporates one of three patterns: The No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 from the plates of salmon flies, tied by Henrik Strandgaard of Copenhagen. Henrik is an authority on Blacker dressings and states: "All the flies are tied according to Blacker's description and look exactly like the files in the plates, with original material and on copies (hand-crafted hooks) of Phillips of Dublin Limericks." Introduction by Kevin McKenna. .