OGDEN (JAMES) Ogden on Fly Tying, 1879
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OGDEN (JAMES)
Ogden on Fly Tying, first edition, 2 mounted albumen plates (portrait of the author, and "Angler's at the Bull Inn, Fairford"), 4 lithographed plates, errata slip, ownership inscription of John J. Bolding, Croydon (1879),, publisher's decorative brown cloth gilt [Westwood & Satchell, p.161], 8vo, Cheltenham, John T. Norman, 1879
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Footnotes

  • One of the first works to give practical advice on dry-fly fishing, including the "setting of wings in my own peculiar style" based the author's own experiences fishing (mostly in Derbyshire) and discussions with Alfred Ronalds. This copy has a number of early pencil annotations including a biographical detail, that the author was born at Cheltenham in 1803 and died on 19 December 1880 "so told by his daughter Mrs Ogden Smith". As in all copies seen by the cataloguer the albumen portrait of the author has been slightly altered in ink to give him more hair.

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