THE BOOK OF THE DRY FLY. By George A.B. Dewar. With contributions by the Marquis of Granby and J.E. Booth. First edition.

1897 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 226mm). Ppxiv,238. Photogravure frontispiece, 6 plates of flies, (Three hand-coloured), b/w illustrations. Olive cloth gilt with small square gilt publisher's logogram in upper left corner of upper board, top edge gilt.

Illustrated with a b/w gravure frontispiece by Lewis Cohen, five plates of artificial flies and one of natural flies, (3 of them hand-coloured), and line drawings of knots. Olive cloth gilt with small square gilt publisher's logogram in upper left corner of front board. The Marquis of Granby contributed a six-page preface and J.E. Booth contributed a 22 page chapter on "The Dry Fly In Derbyshire."