THE UPSTREAM WET FLY. By Terry Lawton.

2011 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Pp256. Colour plates of flies, colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

This "fascinating and informative book provides a history of the development of wet-fly fishing, particularly the Scottish and North-Country schools and their leading protagonists." Chapters include: The early days of fly fishing for trout and grayling; Entomology and the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fly fisherman; The development of upstream wet flies; The philosophy of the upstream wet fly; W.C. Stewart and the upstream wet fly; On the river with W.C. Stewart; Losers of the faith; Southern prejudices and 'alluring ointements'; How to please trout - flymphs and soft-hackle flies; Traditional fly dressings.