YORKSHIRE TROUT FLIES. By T.E. Pritt, angling editor of the "Yorkshire Post." First edition.

1885 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp63. Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured plates of flies, and 1 b/w plate of spinning tackles/hooks, illustrated initials. Dark green cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, with gilt inscription on upper board.

Yorkshire Trout Flies. Comprising 11 plates of illustrations, from the author's own drawings, with particulars of the dressings and season of each fly, and chapters on fishing the minnow, the creeper, the stonefly and the worm in clear water, with an extra plate showing the hooks necessary therefor. By T.E. Pritt, angling editor of the "Yorkshire Post." Only 250 copies were printed, 200 for sale. The scarce first edition of this important book.