FIFTY FAVOURITE WET FLIES. By T. Donald Overfield.

1986 1st edition. Small slim 8vo (108 x 198mm). Pp108. B/w line illustrations by the author. Laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

One of a well regarded series, along with Fifty Favourite Dry Flies and Fifty Favourite Nymphs. In this book, T. Donald Overfield "has made a special selection for the trout angler of both ancient and modern wet flies. As well as providing a fascinating historical background to every pattern, he describes clearly how each is tied and illustrates, in his own distinctive style, various stages in the tying procedure". There is no bibliography as such, but where the author has taken a particular fly from a book, or researched its origins, he does discuss the book in question in the text.