The Erne, Its Legends and its Fly Fishing. London: Chapman & Hall, 1851. First Edition. Pp vxi, 395. Early half red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers & fore-edges. Light shelf wear to binding & scuff marks to lower board, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Illustrated with frontispiece of six flies, engraved title with the hand coloured Fairy Fly, folded map, and four engraved plates in the text.

Piscatorial endeavors along the River Erne, ‘decidedly the best fisherman’s river in Ireland.’ The work includes chapters on the ichthyography of the Erne, its entomology, accounts of various excursions, etc.

One of the scarcest and most desirable of the 19th century Irish fishing books.