FLY FISHING. By Sir Edward Grey. The Haddon Hall Library. First edition.

1899 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 208mm). Ppxvi,276. Illustrated with 2 colour plates of trout and salmon flies, and 4 photogravure plates after paintings by Jessie MacGreggor and William Hyde, chapter head and tail vignettes and pictorial end-papers by Arthur Rackham. Binding A. Green cloth, decorated and titled in gilt on spine and upper board, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, silk marker.

"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).