THE SALMON FLY: HOW TO DRESS IT AND HOW TO USE IT. By Geo. M. Kelson. Flyfisher's Classic Library de luxe edition.

(1895) 1995 Centenary Edition. 8vo (170 x 243mm). Pplxiv,510 + xlv ads. 8 colour plates featuring 52 fully dressed flies, mono plates. Handsome full leather gilt in presentation box.

If there is one milestone in the whole of salmon fishing literature which no fisherman should be without, it has to be George Mortimer Kelson's The Salmon Fly: how to dress it and how to use it. When Kelson distilled a lifetime of salmon fishing wisdom into this privately published work, he was bold and confident. He produced a book of 510 pages of text and 46 pages of illustrations plus 8 coloured plates showing 52 flies. This FFCL edition has an extensive Introduction by John Buckland giving an authoritative background to the angling works of G. M. Kelson. Each copy has set into the front cover a salmon fly - tied by the distinguished fly-dresser Kim Rasmussen of Denmark. Since each fly is different, each volume of this Limited Edition is thus unique. Fully bound in royal purple Nigerian goatskin, hand marbled endpapers, gilt edges, raised bands and gold tooling. Presented in a buckram-bound silk lined presentation box titled in gilt.