The Northern Angler; or, Fly-Fisher’s Companion. London: R. Groombridge, 1840. Pp xvi, 124. Publisher’s plain cloth boards, title lettered in gilt along spine. Covers lightly faded, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece plate, occasional tailpieces & a plate showing minnow tackle.

Reputedly has the earliest mention of one of the most renowned salmon flies in Ireland, ‘The Fiery Brown’.

First tied by the famous fly dresser Michael Rogan from Ballyshannon, the fly is famous for the particular hue of the materials used by Rogan, which were dyed a reddish brown. A colour which many other fly-tiers tried to imitate.