THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER: BEING A GENERAL AND INSTRUCTIVE WORK ON ARTISTIC ANGLING. By the late David Foster. Compiled by his sons. Fifth edition (Fourth English edition).

(1882) ND (1891) 5th edition. Small 8vo (125 x 185mm). Ppviii,354+24pp ads. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait engraving of the author, 8 plates of flies (A to H, colour and monotone) and 6 plates of tackle (I to VI, including the colour plate of the life history of the mayfly - see below). viii pp + 354 pp + 24 pp advertisements. Brown cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt without illustration, bevelled edges, patterned end-papers.

"This being the greatest success ever achieved in the annals of angling literature". This copy includes a colour plate of "Samples of the renowned Beaufort Loch Flies" which is not found in all copies.