EPHEMERAS "MAYFLIES": NATURALS AND ARTIFICIALS. Charles Gaidy. Editor of English Language Edition Thomas W. Earnhardt.

1986 1st English language edition. Folio (244 x 337mm). Pp333. Colour plates of flies, colour photographs, bibliography. Elaborate and handsome full morocco gilt in leather slip-case. Edition Francaise reserve aux bibliophiles tiree a 50 exemplaires numerotes de 01 a 50.

Edited by Thomas W. Earnhardt, colour plates and illustrations by Gaidy and Earnhardt. A huge and comprehensive treatise on the Ephemeridae and their imitation. Includes a good section on rearing poultry for hackles and a comprehensive bibliography of flyfishing books in French. There were 3000 copies of the un-numbered trade edition in pictorial cloth with a dust-wrapper. In addition to this there were 300 leather-bound copies, numbered and signed by the author. There was a further edition of 30 copies, numbered I - XXX, with a signed lithograph laid in. These three issues bring the total number of copies to 3,330. This copy is from the "Edition Francaise reserve aux bibliophiles tiree a 50 exemplaires numerotes de 01 a 50," "French edition reserved for bibliophiles, numbered from 01 to 50." Despite the appelation "Edition Francaise," this is an issue of the English language edition. The limitation statement in the trade edition implies that there should have been a separate signed lithograph with this edition, but that was not the case.