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WHEATLEY (HEWETT)
The Rod and Line: or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc., first edition, 9 hand-coloured engraved plates of bait and tackle, 32 pages of advertisements at end, publisher's cloth gilt, preserved in solander box, fine copy [Westwood & Satchell, p.239], 8vo, Longman, Brown, 1849
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  • "Characterised by a mixture of caustic humour and sound practical knowledge" (Westwood & Satchell). Wheatley seems to have been the first to make regular use of eyed hooks in fly-dressing, encouraging others to try them.

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