FLY FISHING. By Sir Edward Grey. The Haddon Hall Library. 1907 4th edition.

(1899) 1907 4th edition. Small 8vo (135 x 197mm). Ppxvi,276. 2 colour plates of flies, b/w plates by Macgregor and Hyde, vignettes, Arthur Rackham end-papers. Red cloth, gilt coat of arms to upper board, spine titled and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt.

This 1907 "fourth and cheaper edition," is in a slightly smaller format than the earlier editions, but still quite a handsome binding. "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." (Flyfisher's Classic Library).