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Rare and modern books

Sheringham Hugh

The Book of the Fly-Rod. Illustrated by George Sheringham. [First Trade Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936

43.70 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1936
Author
Sheringham Hugh
Publishers
Eyre & Spottiswoode
Keyword
sporting, angling, fishing, fly-fishing, hugh sheringham
Languages
English

Description

Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, 3 fine coloured plates in collotype, 8 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text, small neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a bright, clean copy. Accessible edition of the fishing classic first published as a signed and limited edition of 195 copies in 1931. Contributors include Skues, Van Dyke, Radcliife, Ransome, Calderwood, Plunket Greene, Griswold and others. Sheringham was fishing editor of 'The Field' magazine; Moore provides a chapter on chub on the fly.