Yorkshire Trout Flies
Author:
PRITT Thomas Even
Year:
1885
Publisher:
Goodall and Suddick
City of Publication:
Leeds
Summary:
v- 63 pages, TEG, 12 full-page plates 11 being hand coloured of flies for the months of the year, and a b/w plate of spinning tackles baits. Recased with new endpapers in the original publisher's dark green cloth with gilt title to the upper cover. 250 copies were published, 200 intended for sale, the other 50 having Pritt's initials on each plate, this copy is numbered No 69 in mauve pencil on the 1/2 title with the owner's name above "J.D Stursley" ?. These figures were apparently taken from a statesman by the author in the Field. A very good copy of Pritts classic title of his observations over 20 years " I have made a point of recording every matter of movement of which I have noticed on the rivers or have heard from my fellow-fisherman". Hampton, Modern Angling Bibliography p. 76;
Ref:
24150
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