BLACKER a01 (WILLIAM) Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours
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BLACKER (WILLIAM)
Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours, first edition, first issue, signed by the author at end, engraved title, frontispiece, 32 flies attached with coloured decorative paper seals, no plate, occasional pencil notes, bookplate of Alfred Denison, contemporary half morocco gilt, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Westwood & Satchell, p.32], 12mo, the Author, March, 1842
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Footnotes

  • The first issue, printed in Edinburgh by Anderson and Bryce, with 31 trout flies and one salmon fly. The paper seals are particularly attractive, many bearing mottos. The Shannon Fly is, as Blacker recommends, "as gaudy as possible."

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