THE FLY-FISHER'S ENTOMOLOGY: WITH COLORED REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INSECT, AND A FEW OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS ON TROUT AND GRAYLING FISHING. By Alfred Ronalds. With twenty colored plates.

(1836) 1990 facsimile reprint. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppxvi,132. Twenty colour plates. Gilt decorated brown faux leather with colour plate of flies inset in front board, issued without a dust-wrapper.

Alfred Ronalds was the first of the great angler-naturalists. His book revolutionised flyfishing and flytying, and formed the cornerstone on which all later books on angling entomology were based. This edition is an attractive high-quality reprint of the fifth edition of 1856.