FIFTY POPULAR FLIES AND HOW TO TIE THEM. SERIES ONE. By Tom Stewart.

(1969) 1975 reprint. 8vo paperback (139 x 215mm). Pp112. B/w photographs, illustrations. Cream covers with a painting of four flies, Bronze Mallard, Bourach, Kenny's Killer, Black Crow.

Four volumes were issued in the end, "four books, each containing instructions and hints for dressing a widely varied series of fifty flies. The books were produced in response to the popular demand for republication of Tom Steuart's regular articles in Trout and Salmon. The famous varieties in each series include: SERIES 1: Greenwell's Glory, Wickham's Fancy, Mallard and Claret, Thunder and Lightening, Coachman, Pope's Nondescript, Durham Ranger, Hairy Mary, Tup's Indisensable, Shrimp Fly, Lunn's Particular, Jock Scott. SERIES 2: Watson's Fancy, Gravel Bed, cinnamon Sedge, Dunkeld, Wormfly, Pheasant Tail, Blue Upright, Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear, Rough Olive, Corixa, The Hoolet, Red Ant. SERIES 3: Blue Doctor, Red Sedge, Orange Quill, Parmacheene Belle, Amber Nymph, Muddler Minnow, Black Lure, Iron Blue Dun, White Moth, Treacle Parkin, Teal and Black, Silver Doctor. SERIES 4: Governor, Infallible, Waterhen and Black, Slater, Driffield Dun, Half Stone, Prince Charlie, Green Peter, Beacon Beige, Gold Zulu, Sooty Olive, Hawthorne.