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Orvis. C.F. & Cheney. A.N: Fishing with the Fly.
21 July 2007, 10:00 BST
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Find your local specialistOrvis. C.F. & Cheney. A.N: Fishing with the Fly.
Sketches by lovers of the art, with illustrations of standard flies collected by Charles F. Orvis & A. Nelson Cheney. Manchester, Vermont: C. F. Orvis 1883, decorative pictorial oxblood boards. Fifteen coloured plates of flies, some pages not numbered. Bears various owners signatures and dates. All plates La Branche. George M.L: The Dry Fly and Fast Water. New York Charles Scribner’s Sons 1924. Copyright 1914 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Printed in the United States of America. Published May 1914. Green cloth boards. Bears previous owners signature and date. Mc.Donald. John edited with an introduction by: The Complete Fly Fisherman. The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon*. Jonathan Cape. London First published in Great Britain 1949 with d.w. Bears previous owners signatures and date
Footnotes
Footnote * Theodore Gordon was an America Fisherman, inventor of the Quill Gordon American fly. His writings from 1890, were published in the Fishing Gazette, and he kept a regular correspondence with G E M Skues and R B Marston editor of the Gazette. He died in 1915.