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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

1850. Longman, Brown. 1850. 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xvi + 242 + 2 [ads.] + 24 [publisher's catalogue], 9 plates (8 hand coloured);previous owner's signature to flyleaf, pp. xi-xii roughly opened with loss to edge, occasional light spotting, very good. First edition. Fitzgibbon was a friend of his fellow Irishman the tackle maker William Blacker, and was an ambitious angling writer. This was the first comprehensive guide to the salmon to be written and is rightly prized for the quality of the plates, printed by the Adlards, as well as for the clear, authoritative text. Westwood & Satchell p. 86.

The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1995. Leather Bound. Near Fine/Fine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION 1995. Edition of only 55 copies, this is copy 14. Book is in Near Fine condition with a light indentation on the leather cover from the ribbon bound into the box to remove to book. Outer box is Fine. Includes a fly hand-tied by Henrik Strandgaard, inset on inside front cover with the fly tier's initials in ink and protective textured tissue overlay. Text is printed on archival paper. Approximately 9.5" x 6.5". Color frontispiece is one eight color plates. Bound in full publisher's dark red morocco, gilt lettering, decoration and rules to spine, gilt fish design on front cover, blind rules to edges of front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, burgundy silk bookmark, housed in a dark red silk-lined drop-down box with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and embossed gilt fish design on front cover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer.… Leer más