WET-FLY FISHING TREATED METHODICALLY. By E.M. Tod. First Edition.

1903 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Ppxvi,243. B/w photograph portrait frontispiece, b/w plates by Walter Puttick. Light green cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, with black and gilt trout-fly devices.

A useful treatise on the use of the traditional wet-fly on the streams and rivers of Scotland and the Borders. Like W.C. Stewart, E.M. Tod advocated fishing upstream with a team of spider-patterns. Tod states in later editions that 1500 copies of the first edition were printed.