YORKSHIRE TROUT FLIES. By T.E. Pritt, angling editor of the "Yorkshire Post." Flyfisher's Classic Library edition.

(1885) 1998 new edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp74. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait photograph of the author, 11 coloured plates of flies, and 1 b/w plate of spinning tackles/hooks, illustrated initials. Full dark red leather, spine titled in gilt, gilt FFCL monogram to upper board, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt, silk marker. Dark red cloth slipcase. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. *First issue with two raised bands on the spine.

First published in 1885 as "Yorkshire Trout Flies," and reprinted in 1886 as "North Country Flies." The Flyfisher's Classic Library edition includes a one-page Publisher's Note by Justin Knowles, and as a 9-page Appendix, an "Unedited commentary by E.J. of Bramhope." These notes were taken from an extensively annotated copy listed by bookseller Ron Coleby in his Many of the dressings he provides are not, as far as we are aware, recorded in any other source. He alludes to the writings of Jackson, Theakston, Walbran and others, presumably he was aware too of Swarbrick and Sagar, and he foreshadowed Edmonds and Lee, while making his own distinctive and hitherto hidden contribution to a school of flytiers and flyfishers which is deservedly renowned." (R.J.W. Coleby Catalogue 17, 1990).