THE PRACTICAL ANGLER: Or, the art of trout fishing, more particularly applied to clear water. By W.C. Stewart. 1919 reprint. With an Introduction by W. Earl Hodgson, and including coloured facsimiles of the flies used by Mr. Stewart.

(1857) 1919 reprint. Small 8vo (127 x 195mm). Ppxxxii,212,ads. Colour plates in pocket at rear. Dark blue-green cloth, spine titled in gilt. With W. Earl Hodson's additional introduction from the 1907 edition.

"The Practical Angler or The Art of Trout-Fishing more particularly applied to clear water," by W.C. Stewart, first published in 1857, revolutionised tactics and rapidly became an influential classic. His upstream sunk-fly technique, using lightly dressed "spiders," is described here, just one year before the birth of G.E.M. Skues, who applied the same idea to chalkstream fishing fifty years later.