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Ronalds, Alfred
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
The Fly-Fisher's Entomology: with Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1913
2 volumes, 4to (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 191 mm). Titles printed in red and black, frontispiece and 20 plates (8 photogravures on india paper and mounted, and 13 handcolored engravings), all with lettered tissue-guards; light scattered foxing affecting about 5 plates, paste action to plate 8. Second volume with 48 flies displayed in linen-lined sunken compartments on 9 heavy board mounts; linen guards and endpapers spotted or discolored from paste action, minor offsetting on verso of mounts from metal hooks. Publisher's quarter green morocco, green cloth boards, dry fly emblem in blue and gilt on upper boards, spines gilt with fly tools, top edge of text volume gilt; endpapers discolored.
2 volumes, 4to (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 191 mm). Titles printed in red and black, frontispiece and 20 plates (8 photogravures on india paper and mounted, and 13 handcolored engravings), all with lettered tissue-guards; light scattered foxing affecting about 5 plates, paste action to plate 8. Second volume with 48 flies displayed in linen-lined sunken compartments on 9 heavy board mounts; linen guards and endpapers spotted or discolored from paste action, minor offsetting on verso of mounts from metal hooks. Publisher's quarter green morocco, green cloth boards, dry fly emblem in blue and gilt on upper boards, spines gilt with fly tools, top edge of text volume gilt; endpapers discolored.
Literature
Kerridge 81; Litchfield 75
Catalogue Note
Limited edition, no. 59 of 250 copies (of a total edition of 270) signed by the publisher. This is the eleventh edition of Ronalds's classic treatise, but the first to contain actual specimen flies tied and dressed according to the author's instructions.