Fly-Fishingin Ireland: Some Practical Hints on Procedure, Locality and New Methods of Fly Dressing

1st Edition. 175pp. Octavo. Photographically-illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with titles and decoration stamped in black to spine. Spine and top edges of boards faded. Corners lightly bumped. Old water damage to jacket, resulting in some offsetting of paper to front board. Jacket torn and soiled, with portions missing from spine and back panel. Edges of text block foxed. Irish bookseller's label to front pastedown, else internally clean. Complete with all plates; one laid in loosely. very good A fly-fishing guide to Ireland, illustrated with photographic plates and many in-text drawings. With section on nymphing, wet-fly fishing, dry-fly fishing and fly-tying. Also includes an interesting discussion on the "Sucking Rise" with which a trout may take a fly. Although not marked as such, this copy was from the collection of Edward Joseph "Ted" Garland, the Canadian ambassador to Iceland and Norway. Garland was an avid angler and also an influential founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a precursor to Canada's New Democratic Party. The dust jacket is scarce in any condition. N° de ref. de la librería 135413

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Título: Fly-Fishingin Ireland: Some Practical Hints ...

Editorial: London H.F. & G. Witherby 1933

Año de publicación: 1933

Condición del libro: very good

Condición de la sobrecubierta: Dust Jacket Included