FISHING TACKLE, ITS MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURE: A practical guide to the best modes and methods of making every kind of appliance necessary for taking freshwater fish, and for the equipment of the angler and fly-fisher. By John Harrington Keene.

1886 1st edition. Small 8vo (127 x 187mm). Pp230 + 14pp advertisements. Text and full-page engravings, some folding. Ornate gilt-decorated pictorial gold/yellow cloth, printed in black, blue, yellow and gilt.

The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. "The book was issued in at least three binding states, with no established priority." (Cave).