ANGLING - Frederic M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling, London, 1886, 8vo, 10 hand-coloured plates, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION.

ANGLING - Frederic M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling, London, 1886, 8vo, 10 hand-coloured plates, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION.

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ANGLING - Frederic Maurice HALFORD (1844-1914).  Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. Large 8vo (220 x 140mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, hand-coloured plate of "Crawshaw and Co.'s Special Dyes", 9 hand-coloured plates of flies, 33-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, illustrations and ornaments. Original khaki buckram ruled and lettered in gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (bump to lower edge, some fraying to the extremities). Provenance: "John [?]Brunton, M.D. 1886" (signature on the half title). FIRST EDITION. The publisher's advertisements at the end refer to "a large-paper edition, printed on Dutch hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies for England and 50 copies for America, price 30s. (This Edition is exhausted.) Small paper edition - Demy 8vo, first edition limited to 500 copies, cloth, 15s., post free." Although no limitation is stated in the present copy, it would seem to be part of this second set of "500 copies".