frederick m halford (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 520 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A pleasing copy of the first edition of "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing" Frederick M. Halford's guide to the dry fly technique on English chalk streams The first trade edition of Frederick Halford's classic work, published a decade after his influential work 'Floating Flies and How to Dress Them'.Illustrated with twenty-eight plates, ten of which are hand coloured and retaining their original tissue guards, and with a further folding table. Collated, complete.Halford provides an account of 'A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout & Grayling', and introduces the methodology of English chalk stream dry fly angling to readers in an informative and descriptive style. Rebound in a quarter morocco binding, retaining the publisher's original cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent, with pictorial gilt detailing to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

First edition. First edition. Frontispiece and 25 plates. xii, 289, [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell Supp. p. 246 Original green cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g. Some chipping at spine ends, very good Frontispiece and 25 plates. xii, 289, [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Deluxe Limited Edition, one of 100 copies (out of series, without Limitation page). Frontispiece by D. Moul (Lith. by Leighton Bros.) and 25 plates tipped onto card (5 colored), figures in text on india paper. xii, 289, [3] pp. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo (274 x 180 mm). IINSCRIBED "H.S. Hall Esq./ with the Author's kind regards/ Frederic M. Halford/ April 15th 1889." A group of fishermen including the author F.M. Halford, G. S. Marryat (the dedicatee of this book) , Henry Sinclair Hall (to whom this copy is inscribed) , E. J. Power, Dr. T. Sanctuary; and various professionals including Holland, Hammond, Currell and Chakley took the floating fly, improved on it and produced the dry fly that we use today. Hall with Bankart produced the eyed hooks in 1879. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION. Westwood & Satchell Supp. p. 246; see Hayter, F.M. Halford pp. 58-60 et seq Original full dark green morocco, single gilt ruled border on upper and lower covers, spine with raised bands, t.e.g., rest uncut. Spine somewhat sunned Frontispiece by D. Moul (Lith. by Leighton Bros.) and 25 plates tipped onto card (5 colored), figures in text on india paper. xii, 289, [3] pp. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo (274 x 180 mm) Deluxe Limited Edition, one of 100 copies (out of series, without Limitation page). Signed.