The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, with Coloured Representations of Natural, Artificial Insects, and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing

Reissue.  152pp, with tissue-guarded colour plate frontispiece, 19 further colour plates and 14 other illustrations.  Decorated green cloth-covered boards, deep blue lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth is slightly worn, with a small white mark at top of upper panel, a little rounded at corners and spine ends.  Text block edges dust darkened and a little spotted.  Previous owner's name neatly inked on the front free endpaper.  Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A lightly edited new edition of Alfred Ronald's landmark fly-fishing work, first published in 1836.  Ronalds (1802-1869) was a London-born author, artisan, fisherman and (later in life) a pioneer and gold prospector in New South Wales.  He was the first great angler-naturalists and his book, The Fly-Fisher's Entomology both revolutionised fly-fishing and fly-tying and forms the basis of almost all subsequent publications on the topic.  A lovely, now vintage in its own right, copy.