FLY FISHING. By Sir Edward Grey. Flyfisher's Classic Library De Luxe Edition.

# (1899) 1997 2nd FFCL edition - de luxe issue. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,314. Illustrated with 2 colour plates of flies, b/w plates from drawings by Jessie MacGregor and William Hyde, chapter-heading vignettes by Arthur Rackham and wood engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish. Full brown goatskin, spine titled in gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers by Ann Muir, silk-lined brown buckram presentation box with silk lifter ribbon. Includes a fully-dressed Limited to 50 copies only.

# Some consider Fly Fishing (1899) to be the best fishing book ever written.The volume deals with trout, sea trout and salmon. Grey places fishing for sea trout on a pinnacle, and describes the greatness of salmon fishing. On trout, he was the first writer of importance on the dry-fly who really knew what the wet-fly meant. Although modest, he was an expert angler, and he detailed much that is useful and instructive. His prose is clear and vigorous - the book is a literary achievement of high order.The Flyfisher's Classic Library has chosen the first Haddon Hall Library edition of 1899. This edition has many an added bonus: delightful graphics by Arthur Rackham, illustrations by Jessie Macgregor and William Hyde, and the two beautiful colour plates of "Dry and Wet Flies" and "Salmon and Sea Trout Flies" from specimens supplied by Hardy of Alnwick. In 1930, Lord Grey added two chapters for Dent's new edition. These are included in the FFCL edition with engravings by Fitch Daglish. With a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman. The world class fly-tyer, Steen Orvad Jensen, has dressed and signed the Torrish fly for this de luxe Limited Edition of 50 copies only. The beautifully crafted volume is fully bound in the highest quality brown Wassa goatskin with hand-marbled endpapers by Ann Muir, raised bands, gilt on all three edges, gold tooling and silk lined brown buckram presentation box with silk lifter ribbon.