Title: Blacker's Art of Flymaking &c. Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours. With Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies Shewing the Process of the Gentle Craft as Taught in the Pages. With Descriptions of Flies for the Season of the Year as They Come Out on the Water. Rewritten & Revised by the Author Blacker, Himself, Fishing Tackle Maker... Author: Blacker, William Place: London Publisher: Date: 1855 Description: v-xii, viii, 259 pp. Engraved title-page. Illustrated with 21 engraved plates, 17 of which are hand-colored; tissue guards. (12mo) 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4¼") later three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt. Revised Edition. The best edition. Originally issued as Art of Angling in 1842, then as Blacker's Catechism of Fly-making in 1843. This edition contains splendid plates depicting flies, which are marvelously detailed and brightly hand colored. Earlier editions contained mounted flies. Westwood & Satchell call for the frontispiece to also be hand-colored, it is uncolored in this copy. "The work is a strange medley of practical usefulness and rhapsodical extravagance. The instructions for fly-making are peculiarly precise and clear." - Westwood & Satchell p.33. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding a touch rubbed; fine. Item number: 284635a
Title: Blacker's Art of Flymaking &c. Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours. With Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies Shewing the Process of the Gentle Craft as Taught in the Pages. With Descriptions of Flies for the Season of the Year as They Come Out on the Water. Rewritten & Revised by the Author Blacker, Himself, Fishing Tackle Maker... Author: Blacker, William Place: London Publisher: Date: 1855 Description: v-xii, viii, 259 pp. Engraved title-page. Illustrated with 21 engraved plates, 17 of which are hand-colored; tissue guards. (12mo) 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4¼") later three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt. Revised Edition. The best edition. Originally issued as Art of Angling in 1842, then as Blacker's Catechism of Fly-making in 1843. This edition contains splendid plates depicting flies, which are marvelously detailed and brightly hand colored. Earlier editions contained mounted flies. Westwood & Satchell call for the frontispiece to also be hand-colored, it is uncolored in this copy. "The work is a strange medley of practical usefulness and rhapsodical extravagance. The instructions for fly-making are peculiarly precise and clear." - Westwood & Satchell p.33. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding a touch rubbed; fine. Item number: 284635a
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