Very minor shelf-wear to covers otherwise a very good clean second-hand paperback. Un-numbered out-of-series review copy.
2016 1st edition. Paperback issue. 8vo paperback (158 x 233mm). Pp98 + 1pp ad. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Green card covers with flaps.
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Volume number one in the Coch-y-Bonddu Books Angling Monographs series. This first and only edition was limited to just 250 numbered paperbacks and twenty-six lettered hardback copies. A handful of un-numbered review copies were also produced, of which this is one.
"Imitators of the Fly is a history of fishing for trout with an artificial fly, particularly when it was intended to accurate represent the living insect. It describes the period of angling revolution which spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, and the work carried out by the great angler-entomologists: Halford, Mosely, Marryat and others, the London-based Flyfishers' Club. It includes a detailed history of the club's important Natural Fly Collection, and of the personality clashes and controversies that beset flyfishing in the early years of the twentieth century." (Publisher's blurb).