FLY-TYING. By William Bayard Sturgis.

(1940) not 1st printing. 8vo (140 x 208mm). Ppxviii,254. Colour frontispiece and b/w plates of flies, line illustrations by the author. Fawn cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

William Bayard Sturgis does not attempt to describe every artificial lure on the market, but, since his analysis of the field shows that practically all of the most successful can be grouped into a dozen types, he has selected an oustanding example of each type and by describing the principles of its construction covered the entire field." The book "deals with brook trout, brown trout, steelhead and salmon, with wet flies, dry flies, hair-wing flies and the very latest and most modern patterns in use from the east to the west coast." Chapters include: Equipment; Hackles; Other materials; Supplies; Wet flies; Dry flies; Hair-wing flies; Nymphs; Streamers; Steelhead flies; Salmon flies; Hair-bodied flies and moths; Grasshoppers, crawfish, and frogs; Bucktails, bass lures, and feathered minnows.