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HALFORD (FREDERIC M.)
Dry Fly Entomology. A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout and Grayling with the 100 Best Patterns of Floating Flies, 2 vol., NUMBER 43 OF 100 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES, Vinton & Co., 1897

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HALFORD (FREDERIC M.)

Dry Fly Entomology. A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout and Grayling with the 100 Best Patterns of Floating Flies, 2 vol., NUMBER 43 OF 100 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES, signed by the author on both titles, 28 plates (10 hand-coloured), volume 2 with 100 actual specimens of flies in 12 sunken mounts, list of subscribers, advertisement leaf in each volume, half-title in volume one, occasional light spotting (some to mounts), publisher's green morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, 4to, Vinton & Co., 1897

Footnotes

In his celebrated books on fly fishing Frederic Halford (1844-1914) managed "to pull together the many practices and ideas, to systematize them, and to add a number of new elements.... [thus playing a] crucial role in establishing a major part of the modern system of chalk-stream practice" (ODNB).

Provenance: F.M. Sims, angling bookplate.

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