The Book of the Fly-Rod
( George SHERINGHAM, illus. ) SHERINGHAM, Hugh, J. C., MOORE, eds.
Illustrated by George Sheringham. [First Trade Edition.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936
Stock code: 4530
Price: £38.00
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, 3 fine coloured plates in collotype, 8 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text, small neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a bright, clean copy.
Accessible edition of the fishing classic first published as a signed and limited edition of 195 copies in 1931. Contributors include Skues, Van Dyke, Radcliife, Ransome, Calderwood, Plunket Greene, Griswold and others. Sheringham was fishing editor of 'The Field' magazine; Moore provides a chapter on chub on the fly.