Irish Trout and Salmon Flies. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984. First Edition, Limited Issue. Pp xix, 427. Specially bound in three-quarter leather by Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Dublin. Silk central panel with fly motif in gilt to centre of upper cover, spine with raised bands, title lettered directly in gilt to compartments. A few light stains to central panel otherwise a fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of sixty Numbered Copies, each containing an example of the author’s personal pattern in a sunken mount, with his Signature.

This book is “essentially a dictionary of over 800 traditional and modern dressings from an Irish fly-tyer’s notebook, filling a major gap in angling literature: there is information on hooks, fly-dressing materials and their preparation, with a guide to vegetable dyeing and the materials used to obtain the subtle colours beloved by the traditional fly tyers.

Trout and salmon fly dressings each have their own section, and there are appendices that provide information on where to fish throughout Ireland, and often on which flies are particularly effective in each area”.

One of the essential books on the Irish patterns.