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    By Alfred Ronalds
    London   Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
    9" by 6" [5] vi-x, 115, [1] 32pp
    A flawless, early edition of this work on fly-fishing, including numerous hand-coloured plates, the personal copy of fishing expert Alfred Courtney Williams.
    By Alfred Ronalds

    1844 The Fly-Fisher's Entomology

    London   Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
    9" by 6" [5] vi-x, 115, [1] 32pp
    A flawless, early edition of this work on fly-fishing, including numerous hand-coloured plates, the personal copy of fishing expert Alfred Courtney Williams.
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy, Rebound

    A fascinating and comprehensive guidebook for fly-fishing, including observations and instructions for trout and grayling fishing. Including chapters about tackle, manner of fishing, and varieties of insects. 

    Written by Alfred Ronalds. 

    The third edition of this work. 

    Including twenty copper-plate, hand coloured. Collated and complete. 

    The personal copy of noted sportsman Alfred Courtney Williams, author of numerous works on fishing and other sports, including Fireside Fishing: A Book of Angling Yarns (1928). Including Williams's tipped-in signature to one of the front free-endpapers.

    Handsomely bound in quarter morocco with bright green cloth boards.

    Condition

    Handsomely bound in quarter morocco with bright green cloth boards. Externally, excellent, with no discernible shelf wear. Including the tipped-in signature of Alfred Courtney Williams to one of the front free-endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Fine

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