Dry-Fly Fishing In Theory and Practice. London: Sampson Low, 1889. First Edition. Pp xii, 289. Publisher’s dark olive green cloth, gilt titles and borders on the spine and upper cover, beveled boards. A fine bright copy.

Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author verso front free endpaper.

Illustrated with twenty-five plates, three of them hand-coloured, two of them chromolithograph “illustrative plans,” and the remainder uncoloured, also with text engravings.

Widely thought of as the greatest work on the subject of fly-fishing published during the Victorian era.