THE SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING. By Fred. G. Shaw, F.G.S., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., M.M.S., Etc. Amateur Champion, Trout Fly Casting, International Tournament, 1904.

1906 1st edition. 4to (190 x 234mm). Ppxii,142 + 28 pp ads at front and rear. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, illustrations, patterned end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in black and upper board handsomely illustrated in black and white. Binding C. Cover title is The Science Of Dry Fly Fishing By The Amateur Champion. There is no price on the spine, but small blind-stamped price on upper board.

Quite a spectacular book with a fine colour frontispiece of fish, photograph plates of sequences of flycasting, many pages of fascinating advertisements and one of the most attractive pictorial cloth bindings of any angling book. Cover title is "The Science Of Dry Fly Fishing By The Amateur Champion."