Angling.- Halford (Frederic M.) Dry Fly Entomology, 2 vol., one of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author, 1897.

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

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Angling.- Halford (Frederic M.) Dry Fly Entomology, 2 vol., one of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author, half-title, titles in red and black, 28 plates (10 hand-coloured), folding table and illustrations in vol.1, 100 specimen flies mounted in 12 sunken mounts on thick card in vol.2, occasional foxing, modern burgundy half morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, slight occasional rubbing, spines very slightly faded, 4to, 1897.

*** A handsome set.

Provenance: Biblitheca Piscatoria Lynniana (bookplate); G.Scott Atkinson (bookplate).

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