ANGLING, DRY-FLY FISHING - F. M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Modern Development of the Dry Fly, London, 1910, large 8vo, 43 plates, many coloured, original buckram. FIRST TRADE EDITION. With 3 other books of related interest. (4)

ANGLING, DRY-FLY FISHING - F. M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Modern Development of the Dry Fly, London, 1910, large 8vo, 43 plates, many coloured, original buckram. FIRST TRADE EDITION. With 3 other books of related interest. (4)

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ANGLING, DRY-FLY FISHING - Frederic Maurice HALFORD (1844-1914).  Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Fly Patterns and the Manipulation of Dressing Them and Practical Experiences of their Use. London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1910. Large 8vo (222 x 150mm). Half title, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Edgar Williamson, title printed in red and black, 43 plates including 9 coloured plates of flies and 18 colour-chart plates, the remainder photogravures, illustrations (some very light mainly marginal browning). Original black buckram, the spine lettered in silver (corners a little rubbed, some light staining to the lower cover, rebacked). Provenance: "Alec Neilson from R. M. B." (old inscription on the front free endpaper). FIRST TRADE EDITION. With 3 other books of related interest, namely the same author's Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice ... Revised Edition (London, 1899, large 8vo, plates, some coloured, some spotting and staining, original buckram gilt, quite heavily rubbed at edges, inner hinges reinforced), the same author's The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual including the Fisherman's Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery (London, 1913, large 8vo, plates, original black buckram gilt, FIRST EDITION) and George A. B. Dewar's The Book of the Dry Fly (London, 1897, large 8vo, plates, original green buckram gilt, signed by ARTHUR OGLESBY in 1968 on the front free endpaper, FIRST EDITION). (4)