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. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1886. First American Edition, Limited Issue. Pp 136, [1]. Publisher’s half brown morocco over cloth boards, title in gilt to upper cover & spine. Light shelf-wear to boards, ex library copy with stamps. Contents pages in nice bright condition.

Large Paper Copy, one of Fifty printed on Van Gelder Dutch handmade paper for the American market. There were another 100 copies printed for the English market. 

Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author on half-title page: “Francis Francis Esq, With Kind regards from Frederick M. Halford.”       Francis Francis was a famous angler and author of ‘A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch’ published in 1867.

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

Ex libris Dermot Earl of Mayo.