DRY-FLY ENTOMOLOGY: 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. Second edition revised.

(1897) 1902 2nd revised edition. 8vo (150 x 220mm). Ppxii,323. 28 colour and b/w plates of flies, 2 folding charts, b/w text illustrations. Blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt.

Number 2 in the Halford Dry Fly Series. 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).