Lot 710

ANON





Auction: 12 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£376
Description
Fly-fishing in salt and fresh water ... 1st edition, with five chromolitho plates and 1 uncoloured, original green cloth, slightly marked, ownership inscription on the titlepage, 8vo., London: John Van Voorst, 1851
Note: Heckscher 1075; Westwood & Satchell p. 95
Considered to be the first book on salt water fly fishing and one of the earliest works to give an account of fishing with flies to imitate bait fish and schools of bait fish, with the author sometimes fishing seven large flies at once.




