Beschreibung:

Angling] Aldam, W. H. A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," by an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-fisher a Century Ago. London: John Day 1876 4to (11 x 8 1/4 in.; 279 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black, 2 chromolithographed plates after James Poole mounted on card, half title, 23 flies with dressing components and 2 large completed flies without displayed in 22 sunken compartments on 6 thick gilt-edged card mount); occasional light spotting, two old tape repair to short tears in lower margin of two leaves. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt and black with rising trout motif; corners bumped and exposed, spine ends frayed but not affecting gilt spine title. With: Ronalds, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher's Entomology: with Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1913 2 volumes, 4to (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 191 mm). Titles printed in red and black, frontispiece and 20 plates (8 photogravures on india paper and mounted, and 13 hand-colored engravings), all with lettered tissue guards; offsetting to endleaves. Second volume with 48 flies displayed in linen-lined sunken compartments on 9 board mounts; linen guards minor offsetting on verso of mounts from metal hooks or fly hackles, hackles lacking from Peacock fly. Publisher's quarter green morocco and green cloth boards, dry fly emblem in blue and gilt on upper boards, spines gilt with fly tools, joints rubbed.