DRY FLY ENTOMOLOGY: a brief description of leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling with the 100 best patterns of floating flies and the various methods of dressing them. By Frederic M. Halford.

1897 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Ppxii,314 + 1p ad. 28 colour and b/w plates of flies, 2 folding charts, b/w text illustrations. Half midnight blue leather binding over blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, top edge gilt, title-page printed in red and black.

The first serious attempt to represent the natural insect as found on the water. "This is undoubtedly written by a great angler, but who was, however, not a great naturalist. It gives details of aquatic insects of the Test. This book is based on his earlier book Floating Flies And How To Dress Them, which is incidentally probably more famous. The very useful entomological section in Dry Fly Entomology is larger due to the co-operation of the Rev. E.A. Eaton. The hundred best patterns were tied by George Holland of Winchester." (Hampton).