FLY-FISHING AND FLY-MAKING FOR TROUT, ETC. With plates of the actual material for making flies of every variety. By J. Harrington Keene.

1887 1st edition. Small 8vo (133 x 190mm). Pp113 + 14 pp publisher's catalogue. Two plates with 37 actual examples of fly tying materials, text engravings. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board titled in black, with black rod, creel and fishes, and a fly on a gilt roundel, marble-effect end-papers.

The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. Chapters: The senses of fishes in relation to the fly-fisherman; Practical fly-fishing; Trout fly-making; Lessons in fly-making; Standard trout flies and their dressings. Includes dressings of around 37 trout flies, 12 lake flies, and 8 flies for bass, mostly to be tied with the materials illustrated in the book.