THE ART OF FLY MAKING. By William Blacker. Flyfisher's Classic Library De Luxe Edition. Plus THE AMAZING MR BLACKER by Henrik Strandgaard.

# (1842) 1994 reprint of 1855 edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (162 x 243mm). Ppxxxviii,259. 17 Colour plates and three b/w photographs. Fully bound in black goatskin, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Presented in a silk-lined gold-blocked buckram clam-shell box.

# The Standgaard De luxe limited edition of 55 copies with fly and a copy of "The Amazing Mr Blacker" by Henrik Strandgaard included in the same box. Blacker set up as a fly-dresser and tackle-dealer in Soho in the 1820's. His exciting salmon-fly patterns were among the first to use exotic materials. His book was first published in 1842, then re-issued in 1855 with wonderful new colour plates. Each copy incorporates one of three patterns: The No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 from the plates of salmon flies, tied by Henrik Strandgaard of Copenhagen. Henrik is an authority on Blacker dressings and states: "All the flies are tied according to Blacker's description and look exactly like the files in the plates, with original material and on copies (hand-crafted hooks) of Phillips of Dublin Limericks." Introduction by Kevin McKenna.