Author:
SKUES G.E.M.
Title:
Minor Tactics Of The Chalk Stream And Kindred Studies
Price:
£45.00
Year:
1914
Edition:
2nd
Publisher:
Adam and Chrles Black
Summary:
xiv-133 pages, adv leaf, coloured frontis of flies, publishers' olive-green cloth, blind stamped title to upper board, faint scuff mark to part of rear board. VG first published in 1910 Skues book challenged the "dry fly only" orthodoxy of F.M. Halford. Skues' use of wet flies and nymphs on the chalk streams of the south of England was considered heresy by many which he acknowledged in the second edition
Ref:
22276
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