Angling.- Aldam (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making", first edition, half-title, 2 chromolithograph plates, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, some foxing, loosely inserted subscription form with list of subscribers and number of books totalling 217 copies, original pictorial cloth, g.e., a very handsome copy in modern board slip-case, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876. ⁂ A very good copy of one of the classic angling books. The manuscript on which Aldam based his text surfaced at a public auction in 1999, revealing the author's name to be Robert Whitehead, about whom nothing else is known. The flies include two mayfly patterns which are tied on very early eyed hooks specially made by Bartletts.
Angling.- Aldam (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making", first edition, half-title, 2 chromolithograph plates, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, some foxing, loosely inserted subscription form with list of subscribers and number of books totalling 217 copies, original pictorial cloth, g.e., a very handsome copy in modern board slip-case, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876. ⁂ A very good copy of one of the classic angling books. The manuscript on which Aldam based his text surfaced at a public auction in 1999, revealing the author's name to be Robert Whitehead, about whom nothing else is known. The flies include two mayfly patterns which are tied on very early eyed hooks specially made by Bartletts.
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