A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making" By An Old Man...with editorial notes...by W.H. Aldam
by Aldam, W.H
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Head of spine deflty repaired. A bright fresh copy. Bookplate of Arthur H
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
This is the later state of the book, likely produced by Day without Aldam's approval, without the chromolithographic plates, and with the flies and material specimens attached with white paper wafers. Aldam called the "spurious" copies
Handsome copy, finely preserved. Heckscher 18; Litchfield 49; Gee 84; Kerridge 79; Westwood & Satchell 3; Flyfisher's Journal, Summer 2000, pp.31-36
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220762
- Title
- A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making" By An Old Man...with editorial notes...by W.H. Aldam
- Author
- Aldam, W.H
- Format/Binding
- Title page printed in red and black, title and text printed within double red rules. 2 completed flies and 23 flies with dressin
- Book Condition
- Used - Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Head of spine deflty repaired. A bright fresh copy. Bookplate of Arthur H
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second issue
- Publisher
- John B. Day
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- Angling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports & Games;
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