IMITATORS OF THE FLY: A HISTORY. By Peter Hayes. Angling Monographs Series Volume One.

2016 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Pp100. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Pictorial card covers with flaps. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, each signed by the author.

The Imitators of the Fly is a history of fishing for trout with an artificial fly, particularly when it was intended to accurately represent the living insect. It describes the period of angling revolution which spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, and the work carried out the great angler-entomologists; Halford, Mosely, Marryat and others, of the London-based Flyfishers' Club. It includes a detailed history of the club's important Natural Fly Collection, and of the personality clashes and controversies that beset flyfishing in the early years of the twentieth century. Volume One of Coch-y-Bonddu Books Angling Monographs Series. There is also a de luxe edition, quarter-bound in green leather, limited to only 26 lettered copies.