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HALFORD (FREDERIC M.)
Dry-Fly Fishing, in Theory and Practice, NUMBER 89 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Horace Cox, 1895; and 4 others by Halford on angling (5)

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HALFORD (FREDERIC M.)

Dry-Fly Fishing, in Theory and Practice, NUMBER 89 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 26 tipped in lithographed plates (5 colour), advertisement leaf at end, angling bookplate of J.S. Sims, contemporary green morocco gilt, t.e.g., imperial 8vo, Sampson Low, 1889; The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual Including The Fisherman's Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery, NUMBER 65 OF 100 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, half title, 44 plates, publisher's maroon half calf, 4to, George Routledge, [1913]; Making a Fishery, NUMBER 11 OF 150 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 4 tipped-in plates, bookplates of F. McKno Bladon and Arthur F. Terry, publisher's green morocco gilt, t.e.g., rubbed at extremities, 4to, Horace Cox, 1895; and 2 others by Halford on angling (5)

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