Blacker’s Art of Fly Making, etc. Comprising Angling and Dyeing of Colours, With Engravings of Salmon and Trout Flies, Showing the Process of the Gentle Craft as Taught in the Pages. London, 1855. Second Edition, Rewritten & Revised by the Author. Pp xi, 259. Publisher’s green cloth with spine rules, titles & decorations in gilt, both covers stamped in blind. A fine bright copy.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, three black & white and seventeen hand coloured plates. The text printed within decorated borders.

Updated and enlarged from Blacker’s earlier works of 1842 & 1843, with this one being the most desirable version.

“The work is a strange medley of practical usefulness and rhapsodical extravagance. The instructions for fly-making are peculiarly precise and clear.” (Westwood & Satchell p.30)