Halford, Frederic M.
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. London: Sampson, 1889, first edition, 8vo, 26 plates (5 colour), advertisement leaf, publisher's brown cloth gilt, inscribed "J.R. Walker from R.C.N. Palaviet, 1894" on half-title, head of spine slightly rubbed; Modern Development of the Dry Fly. London: Routledge, 1910, first edition, 8vo, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 43 plates (25 coloured), illustrations in text, publisher's dark blue cloth, armorial bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie of Combe Court, spine slightly faded; Dry-Fly Entomology. London: Vinton, 1897, first edition, large 8vo, 28 plates (10 hand-coloured), illustrations, publisher's blue half roan, light discolouration to some plates, slightly rubbed, inscription of Henry Norman 1897 (3)