NORTH-COUNTRY FLIES

By T.E. Pritt

Second edition

Front hinge tender (split with webbing showing through), contemporary owner's name to half-title page, plate seven loose but laid in, all other plates present firmly attached. Cloth slightly frayed along spine and quite rubbed on corners.

A worn but good copy of a scarce and important book.

(1885) 1886 2nd edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp63 + 1pp ads. Eleven hand-coloured plates of flies, one b/w plate of spinning and bait mounts. Brown cloth, upper board titled in gilt and with gilt fly motif, spine titled in gilt, bevelled edges.

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One of the cornerstones of any antiquarian angling book collection.

Full title:- "North-Country Flies. By T.E. Pritt, Angling Editor of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and Honorary Secretary, Yorkshire Anglers' Association. Comprising eleven plates of hand-painted 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."

"The first edition of this work was published under the title of 'Yorkshire Trout Flies.' It was very generously received, and was quickly exhausted. But it was pointed out in quarters entitled to high respect that the title was too local: that the patterns of flies would do good service on all northern waters: that they would kill grayling as well as trout: and that the remarks upon Yorkshire streams would apply equally to all similar rivers. In view of these representations it was therefore decided to alter the title to 'North-Country Flies,' the text remaining identical with that of the first edition. This explanation is necessary in view of a perplexity which might arise in the minds of readers owing to the distinctly Yorkshire colouring which pervades the book." (Author's preface to this edition).

Contents include:- Introductory; Descriptions of the flies; Bustard fishing and minnow spinning; Creeper and stone-fly fishing; Up-stream worm fishing; General observations.