Halcyon: or, Rod-Fishing with Fly, Minnow, and Worm. To Which is Added a Short and Easy Method of Dressing Flies, with a Description of the Materials Used. With Eight coloured Plates containing One Hundred and Seventeen Specimens of Natural and Artificial Flies, Materials etc., and Four Plate Illustrations of Fishing, Baiting etc. London: Bell & Daldy, 1861. First Edition. Pp xvii, 212, with plates at rear. Publisher’s green cloth boards, boards with blind stamped design, title lettered in gilt to spine. Restoration to head of spine, covers lightly worn, contents in good condition.

A detailed and nicely illustrated work on the art of fly-fishing. In the preface the author notes: “My design in compiling the following pages, and embodying in them the long practical experience of my friends and myself, was chiefly to secure to the lover of Angling a share in the advantages which generally follow the adoption of any system that has been proved successful.” Henry Wade was Honorary Secretary to the Wear Valley Angling Association.