THE ART OF THE CLASSIC SALMON FLY. By Ken Sawada. LIMITED EDITION.

1989 1st edition. Folio (270 x 370mm). Pp198. Over 500 superb colour photographs of fully dressed salmon flies by Iwana Akizuki. Text in Japanese and English. Full black velvet binding, upper board titled in gilt, coloured spine label. Matching cloth and paper-covered slip-case with colour illustrations of salmon flies.

A stunning collection - some patterns devised by Ken Sawada himself, but the majority are taken from Blacker, Fitzgibbon, Francis, Kelson, Hardy, Pryce-Tannatt, Hale and Rogan. Introductions by James L. Hardy and Alan Bramley. "...a fly dresser is an artist, just as much as a sculptor or painter. In this book are shown, by excellent photography some of the classic salmon flies of bygone days in all their beauty - truly a work of art." (Hardy). Twenty pages of text in both English and Japanese, but the tying instructions and descriptions of individual flies are in English.