FLY TYING. Compiled by Raymond Sugg, Ken Whitehead and Alan Vare.

1973 1st edition. 8vo (147 x 216mm). Pp111. B/w photographs throughout. Red-orange boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is a good basic manual aimed at beginners, containing material which has been thoroughly tested on real students in evening classes and demonstrations. Chapters include: Vices; Tools and materials; Feathers and hair; Store box; Hen and cock hackle; Capes; Fur and feathers; Fly boxes; Drying rack; Loading a bobbin holder; Bobbin holder; Hook and fly sequence; The hackled wet fly; Seal fur nymph; Winged and palmered wet fly; Winged wet fly; Hackled dry fly; Winged dry fly; Simple tandem; Richard Walker polystickle; Hair winged fly; Muddler type; Fan winged mayfly; Copper wire Nymph; Woollen Nymph (leaded); Nymph; Palmered and winged sedge; Wet fly with jungle cock cheeks; Herl winged fly; Herl nymph. *Inscription reads - "To my good friend Dennis Bridges, may his 'rope' never break. Raymond Sugg, Oct 1973".