All-fur Flies and How to Dress Them (W. H. Lawrie) lands on the shelves of my shop, where it will be found in my Sport Fishing section. priced at £6.50! Call in and get 40% OFF that price when you mention this post…
London: Pelham Books, 1967, (First Edition) Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece;
From the cover: Here is a book with a new approach to an old and fascinating subject -fly-dressing for trout and salmon fishing. Written by a fly-fisher of long and varied experience and the well-known author of many sound books on angling for game fish, this work provides an answer to some of the serious problems of obtaining flies of quality today a matter of particular concern to the dry-fly fisherman and it has the merit of being supported in theory and practice by the full weight of past and contemporary authority.
Whether trout, sea-trout, or salmon flies of consistent killing quality are required, this book furnishes a key to the means of obtaining them. Directions are given straight-forwardly and in a clear, lucid manner free from any taint of dogma. The book will be of real service to the experienced fly-dresser as well as to the beginner.
Illustrated with explanatory line-drawings, All-Fur Flies is a challenging work with a progressive outlook, and constitutes the first real endeavour for many years to initiate a renaissance of the art of fly-dressing, and, at the same time, to carry a stage further on the soundest of lines the evolution of trout and salmon flies. Mr. W. F. Hardy, Managing Director of The House of Hardy, writes I am very much of the opinion that these fur flies should form our future policy on fly-dressing, and with this in mind propose to include them all in our 1968 catalogue.
Good in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a tape-repaired tear to the head of the upper panel. Blanks and endpapers have much tape remnant from a rather lazily apply cover to the dust wrapper, which is now removed. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise.
Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 162 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾” x 5¾”.
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