Dry Fly Entomology. A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving As Food for Trout & Grayling with the 100 Best Patterns of Floating Flies and the Various Methods of Dressing Them. London: Vinton & Co., 1897. Edition de Luxe. Two Volumes. Original green crushed morocco, title in gilt to upper covers & spines. Covers faded with light shelf-wear. A fine bright set.

Edition De Luxe, Limited to 100 Numbered Copies, Signed and Numbered by the Author.

Volume one with eight colour and monochrome plates; Volume two with one hundred specimen flies mounted in twelve sunken mounts on thick card.

“The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing” Frederick M. Halford’s classic guide to the dry fly technique on English chalk streams. Published a decade after his influential work ‘Floating Flies and How to Dress Them’ (1886)