Ogden Fly Tying, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo, 18cm, first edition, iv,89p., (errata slip, preceding the title page), with 2 mounted albumen photograph plates, (One being a frontis portrait of the author), & 4 plates from wood-engravings, (inc. "Ogden's Improved Fly Vice"), in the original blue cloth, black and blind stamped decorations and borders, gilt titles on the upper cover, tape staining along the frontis and title pages at the gutter edge, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy (Ands). - Heckscher 1472.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1887). 1879 1st edition - first issue. Small 8vo (123 x 183mm). iv pp + iv p + 89 pp. Illustrated with 2 tipped-in albumen plates (one a frontispiece portrait of the author), 2 lithographs and 2 steel engravings. Errata leaf tipped-in. Brown cloth, upper board titled in gilt, decorations in black. Damp-staining to front end-paper and frontispiece photograph. Small piece (name?) cut from top edge of title-page. Title-page inscribed "From the author. David Liddell. With love & best wishes from Grandfather. May 22nd 1911." Lacks errata slip. Name-stamp (Colonel Kettlewell) on Contents page. Original cloth slightly used but good. This book is a small milestone in the history of flyfishing, almost certainly produced by James Ogden himself. Ogden fished with his father in Derbyshire, later coming south to Cheltenham where he perfected a practical method of dry-fly fishing. In this trail-blazing book he proposes the separation between any-method fishing and flyfishing. The hub of this book is the description of Ogden's method with the floating fly, which he claims to have invented 40 years before his book was published. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1879). 1879 1st edition - second issue. Small 8vo (132 x 183mm). iv pp + iv p + 89 pp. Illustrated with 2 lithographs and 2 steel engravings. Errata leaf tipped-in. Olive cloth, upper board titled in gilt, decoration in gilt. Slight wear & staining, front inner hinge tender. A used but good copy of the second issue (without the tipped-in photographs). This book is a small milestone in the history of fly fishing, almost certainly produced by James Ogden himself. Ogden fished with his father in Derbyshire, later coming south to Cheltenham where he perfected a practical method of dry-fly fishing. In this trail-blazing book he proposes the separation between any-method fishing and fly fishing. The hub of this book is the description of Ogden's method with the floating fly, which he claims to have invented 40 years before his book was published. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1879). 1879 1st edition - second issue. Small 8vo (132 x 183mm). iv pp + iv p + 89 pp. Illustrated with 2 lithographs and 2 steel engravings. Errata leaf tipped-in. Olive cloth, upper board titled in gilt, decoration in gilt. Slight wear & staining but a good copy of the second issue (without the tipped-in photographs). This book is a small milestone in the history of fly fishing, almost certainly produced by James Ogden himself. Ogden fished with his father in Derbyshire, later coming south to Cheltenham where he perfected a practical method of dry-fly fishing. In this trail-blazing book he proposes the separation between any-method fishing and fly fishing. The hub of this book is the description of Ogden's method with the floating fly, which he claims to have invented 40 years before his book was published. .

First edition, with errata. First edition, with errata. Two mounted albumen prints: frontispiece of "The Author," and "Anglers at the Bull Inn, Fairford" (both somewhat faded); plus 2 wood-engraved and 2 lithographic plates. iv, 89, [1] pp. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Practical advice, not only on fly-tying, but on rods, reels, lines, nets, and other equipment, some of it invented by the author, James Ogden (1803-1880). Besides the two albumen plates noted above, there are two wood-engravings of equipment and two lithographs of angling-associated buildings, "Coulton's Fishing House" and "The Peacock. Rowsley, Derbyshire." Westwood & Satchell, p. 161; Heckscher 1472 (both calling for only 2 plates) Original brown cloth. Very Good Two mounted albumen prints: frontispiece of "The Author," and "Anglers at the Bull Inn, Fairford" (both somewhat faded); plus 2 wood-engraved and 2 lithographic plates. iv, 89, [1] pp. 1 vols. Sm 8vo.

First edition, without errata. First edition, without errata. Two mounted albumen prints: frontispiece of "The Author," and "Anglers at the Bull Inn, Fairford"; plus 2 wood-engraved and 2 lithographic plates. iv, 89, [1, ornament] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Practical advice, not only on fly-tying, but on rods, reels, lines, nets, and other equipment, some of it invented by the author, James Ogden (1803-1880). Besides the two albumen plates noted above, there are two wood-engravings of equipment and two lithographs of angling-associated buildings, "Coulton's Fishing House" and "The Peacock. Rowsley, Derbyshire." Westwood & Satchell, p. 161; Heckscher 1472 (both calling for only 2 plates) Original brown cloth. Minor rubbing, mottling to spine. Inner hinge conserved. Very good plus, attractive copy Two mounted albumen prints: frontispiece of "The Author," and "Anglers at the Bull Inn, Fairford"; plus 2 wood-engraved and 2 lithographic plates. iv, 89, [1, ornament] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.