GREY, Sir Edward.
Fly Fishing.
London: J. M. Dent and Co , 1899.
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Sir Edward Grey's Flying Fishing; With An Autographed Signed Letter
Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles and tooling to spine and front panel. Frontis and 6 photogravure and color illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Norman Maclachlan. An autographed letter signed from the author to Maclachlan laid in, noting that he never gets enough of fishing "and Parliament is officially arranged to make fishing difficult between March 1 and July 31, which covers the best of the season." In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Fly Fishing, first published in 1899 by English author and diplomat Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), is a book about fly fishing English chalk streams and spate rivers for trout and salmon. It includes reminisces about the author's fly fishing experiences on Hamptonshire rivers. "Lord Grey of Fallodon published his book at the end of last century. The dry fly was then at its zenith, and the other system [the nymph] was receiving somewhat intolerant treatment. He was the first writer of importance on the dry fly who really knew what the wet fly meant. Himself the best and most devoted dry fly fisherman in England, he thus started unconsciously that restatement of values which Mr. Skues has carried so far. But he did more. He is gifted with the power to write fine prose" (John Waller Hills, A History of Fly Fishing for Trout).
Fly Fishing.
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