THE BOOK OF THE GRAYLING: Being a description of the fish and the art of angling for him, as practiced chiefly in the Midlands and the North of England, By T.E. Pritt. Flyfisher's Classic Library de luxe edition.

(1888) 2007 FFCL edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (167 x 255mm). Ppviii,64. Colour plates, one folding. Fully bound in maroon leather with 15 actual flies inset. Cloth presentation box.

"We have reproduced the very rare 1888 first edition of The Book of the Grayling by T.E. Pritt published by Goodall and Suddick of Leeds. This book is split into two chapters: "All about Him" and "When, Where, and How to Catch Him". There are three colour plates : 1 fold out of a grayling, 1 of flies and 1 of floats and the dorsal fin of a grayling plus 2 pages of advertisements". With a new introduction by angling historian, John Austin. The De luxe edition is limited to 22 copies, only 20 of which were numbered and offered for sale, each with a set of 15 grayling flies mounted within a recess set inside the front board. The flies were tied by Stuart Bowdin on silk worm gut for inclusion in this de luxe edition which is displayed in a silk-lined buckram presentation box with lifter ribbon. This edition has long sold out and copies are very rarely offered for sale.