Title: The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect. And Accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing. Author: Ronalds, Alfred Place: London Publisher: Longman's, Green and Co. Date: 1883 Description: xiv, [2], 132 + 24 ad pp. . Illustrated with 20 hand-colored copper-engraved plates, including frontispiece. (8vo), original cloth, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered. Ninth Edition. "It's impossible to overstress the importance of Ronalds...It is safe to say that no single book ever had the revolutionary effect on the angling world-that is, the actual practice of angling, as opposed to the recording of its annals-of The Fly-fisher's Entomology in 1836...He threw a bridge, so to speak, across the practice of angling and the science of entomology [and] gave fly fishing for the first time a systematic and scientific basis of distinguishing one fly from another" (Gingrich, The Fishing in Print, pp. 112-13). Litchfield 21; Westwood & Satchell p.178. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and soiling to binding with light corner bumps; owner's signature on half-title, scattered foxing, mostly at title page and frontispiece, small San Francisco bookseller's decal on rear pastedown; very good. Item number: 278014
Title: The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect. And Accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing. Author: Ronalds, Alfred Place: London Publisher: Longman's, Green and Co. Date: 1883 Description: xiv, [2], 132 + 24 ad pp. . Illustrated with 20 hand-colored copper-engraved plates, including frontispiece. (8vo), original cloth, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered. Ninth Edition. "It's impossible to overstress the importance of Ronalds...It is safe to say that no single book ever had the revolutionary effect on the angling world-that is, the actual practice of angling, as opposed to the recording of its annals-of The Fly-fisher's Entomology in 1836...He threw a bridge, so to speak, across the practice of angling and the science of entomology [and] gave fly fishing for the first time a systematic and scientific basis of distinguishing one fly from another" (Gingrich, The Fishing in Print, pp. 112-13). Litchfield 21; Westwood & Satchell p.178. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and soiling to binding with light corner bumps; owner's signature on half-title, scattered foxing, mostly at title page and frontispiece, small San Francisco bookseller's decal on rear pastedown; very good. Item number: 278014
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