Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling. With Full Illustrated Directions And Containing Ninety Hand coloured Engravings Of The Most Killing Patterns. Together With A Few Hints To Dry-fly Fishermen. London: Sampson Low, 1886. First Edition. Pp 136, [32]. Publisher’s dark olive cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. A fine bright copy.

Illustrated with ten coloured plates & numerous text drawings.

The first edition of the first, and scarcest, of Halford’s books.

Though the book contains no limitation statement it is known that only 500 copies of this first edition were produced.