james poole ill (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: FINE. First Edition. First Edition, one of 200 copies printed. First State with the two James Poole chromolithographic plates, bearing the uncommon '1875' imprint on the title page. 91pp. + 22 sunken mounts displaying 25 actual specimens of flies with dressing material, including 2 completed flies. 4to, forest green publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, stamped in black and gilt with designs of fish and flies amidst flora, all edges gilt. Title page in red and black with all pages and mouts ruled in double red lines. Some trivial rubbing to the cloth around the extremities, typical age spotting as seen on most every copy, very clean and bright with sound, tight binding. An uncommonly nice copy. Provenance: Provenance: A.W.K. Straton with his armorial bookplate bearing the Straiton house motto 'Surgere Tento' over phoenix; Straton's signature to FFEP verso; indecipherable gift inscription on verso of frontispiece dated 1877. ?? 'Most of the flies were tied by Mary Ogden-Smith, a daughter of James Ogden of Cheltenham, and some by David Foster of Ashbourne. The Mayflies, which are tied on vertically-eyed Bartlett Limerick hooks, are said to have been dressed by James Ogden himself and are likely to be the earliest example of the floating fly extant' (John Simpson, Thomas Thorp Catalogue of Angling Books, A12, 1973).