CREATIVE SALMON FLY ART: AN ORNITHOLOGICAL SCHEMA. VOLUME 1, PART 1 PHEASANTS: TRAGOPANS, PEACOCK PHEASANTS and JUNGLE FOWL. By Paul Rossman.

2011 1st edition. Folio. (248 x 328mm). Ppiv,vi,91. Colour photographs and plates after paintings, bibliography. Claret cloth, spine titled in gilt.

CREATIVE SALMON FLY ART: AN ORNITHOLOGICAL SCHEMA. A treatise on the creative structure of tying artistic salmon flies. This volume containing 15 flies representing 15 birds. Volume 1, Pheasants. Part One - Tragopans, Peacock Pheasants and Jungle Fowl. Written and Photographed by Paul Rossman. "It is an extended voyage through the working process of creating feather art on a hook. Lavishly photographed and illustrated, this book offers the reader a lush experience in ornithological history and an artist's unique methodology of tying beautiful creative salmon flies." (Dick Talleur). "To put salmon-fly tying into a larger, painterly aesthetic is a wonderfully original and fruitful idea." (Ted Leeson).