PRACTICAL FLY-FISHING FOUNDED ON NATURE. By John Beever, late of the Thwaite House, Coniston. A new edition with a memoir of the author by W.G. Collingwood, also additional notes on char fishing by A. and A.R. Severn.

(1849) 1893 2nd edition, de luxe large paper edition of 56 copies printed Dutch hand-made paper, numbered and signed on behalf of the publisher. 8vo (150 x 230mm). xxii pp + 54 pp + ads. Pictorial light green cloth, spine and upper board printed in dark green, top edge gilt, deckled fore- and bottom edge, bevelled edges. Decorated title-page printed in red and black.

A discourse on natural and artificial flies for trout, with a chapter on "the woods proper for fly-rods."