Product Description
Half bound in dark green morocco and cloth with gilt spine titles between 5 raised bands 4to; 288pp; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; illustrated with 20 full-page color plates (18 trout, 2 of flies) all with tissue guards plus 12 b/w plates after drawings by H.
H.
Leonard; deluxe edition limited yo 100 numbered (#11) signed copies.
Book is dedicated to John Lanson Philbrick of Rangeley, Maine, the longtime guide for the author.
With detailed chapters on various trouts found in American waters; fly rods; habits of trout; fishing the wet fly; dry flies used in England and America; sight & hearing of trout and fly fishing for trout in the Rangeley area of Maine.
This copy in VG condition with light cover wear; mildly rubbed along spine, bright titles; occasionally light foxing and some toning primarily to text pages; 1 plate with a short closed tear, not affecting image while all plates are bright and retain their corresponding tissue guards.
Most uncommon in the limited, deluxe state.
Wetzel p.
215; Bruns S-229; Hampton p.
87
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