Fishing Book, How to Tie Salmon Flies by Captain Hale
Fishing Book, How to Tie Salmon Flies by Captain Hale
Vintage Fishing Book, How to Tie Salmon Flies by Captain Hale.
A good 1st edition angling book by Captain Hale of the East Lancashire Regiment entitled 'How to Tie Salmon Flies'. This is a hard back copy with original red cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Title page printed in red and black 'How To Tie Salmon Flies, a treatise on the methods of tying the various kinds of salmon flies with illustrated directions and containing the dressings of forty flies. By Captain Hale, East Lancashire Regiment. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, St Dunstan's House, Fetter lane, Fleet Street, E.C., 1892'. Edinburgh University Press, T. and A. Constable, printers to Her Majesty, MDCCCXCII. The book contains 128 pages with numerous illustrations amongst the text and four pages of adverts to the rear. The adverts are for fishing tackle manufacturers and retailers Francis M. Walbran, W. Bartleet & Sons, Hardy Brothers, Chas. Farlow & Co. and Jos. Braddell & Son. The contents are listed as Introduction, Chapter 1: Hooks, Chapter 2: Materials, Implements, etc., Chapter 3: On Dyeing Furs and Feathers, Chapter 4: Gut loops, etc., Tags and Tails, Chapter 5: Butts, Ribbing, Bodies, and Hackles, Chapter 6: Hackles, Jointed Bodies, and Grubs, Chapter 7: Wings, Appendix: dressings of Salmon Flies and Index.
Dimensions:
1850-1899
1892
Paper
United Kingdom
Very Good
1st.
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