PETER DEANE'S FLY-TYING. By Peter Deane.

1993 1st edition. 4to (218 x 283mm). Pp142. Full-page colour photographs of flies, b/w photographs, illustrations, cartoons by John Troy. Laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

Peter Deane takes us through thirty-one lessons in fly-tying, with detailed tying instructions for, and the history of, twenty-eight of his flies, each of which is a lesson. Chapters include: Tools and materials; Making a start - starting a fly, the whip finish, a hackled dry fly with variations; Dry flies - Terry's Terror, Merry Widow, Grey Wulff, Claret Bodied Sherry Spinner, Beacon Beige, Leckford Professor, mating Black Gnat, The Janus, Pop Hornsby's Pheasant Tail, winged Greenwell Glory; Mayflies - Grey Wulff, Shadow Mayfly, The Ginbad, Sowerby Mayfly, Deane's Spent Mayfly with Irish hackling, Field Mayfly Nymph; Nymphs - The Greenwell Nymph, McCaskie's Green Cat, Montana Nymph; Wet flies - Coleman Lake Special, Wet Winged Greenwell Glory, Camasunary Killer, Heather Moth; Salmon flies - Silver Doctor, Old Charlie, The Gunna Special, Pat's Fancy, The Black Eyed Prawn Fly; Cri de coeur; Bibliography.