Product Description
Gray cloth with gilt spine titles on red leather label; 4to; 232pp; patterned endsheets; illustrated with color frontispiece after painting plus drawings by Henry McDaniel, b/w and color photos; included is an additional suite of color plates, loose in a ribbon-tied cloth-covered chemise; matching gray cloth slipcase with paste-paper sides which match the book's endsheets; limited to 250 numbered (#124) signed copies.
"Here Bates, the acknowledged expert in the field, makes the first contemporary attempt to present a full account of the Atlantic salmon fly.
" With chapters on early beginnings; glimmerings of color; materials and fly construction; British and Welsh influence; the Americanization of salmon flies, etc.
Numerous color plates depict hundreds of flies from Bates' collection.
A near fine copy in all respects, perhaps from Bates' personal library with his armorial bookplate affixed to front pastedown.
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