Author: AN ANGLER [ JOHN EDMUNDSON ]
Title: The Fly Maker's Hand-Book, Illustrated with Coloured Plates, Representing Upwards of Fifty of the Most Useful Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling Fishing by an Angler
Description: Liverpool, Henry Whitty, at Edmondson's Anglers' Depot, and printed at The Liverpool Stationery Company, Limited. 1886, Second Edition, 1st Issue. 110mm x 135mm tall (4.25" x 5.5" approx.). 45pp + 9 colour-plates + 1p Publisher's advert. Fine and bright, in the original green cloth-covered, thin card covers/gilt title & ornate gilt pictorial front board. Photo/s on request. Undated. Unrecorded in Westwood & Satchell's 'Bibliotheca Piscatoria', which lists only those works published prior to 1883, but Marston's later Supplement gives: "Simpkin, & Liverpool Printing &c. Co. 1887." No collation is quoted, nor any guess made as to the Author. The copy here offered makes no mention of any Simpkin. The Preface refers to 'Our New Price List for This Season', and a footnote to page 11 records that all of the hooks shown throughout the book are those sold by Messrs. Edmondson, Basnett Street, Liverpool. The final leaf, not mentioned in other references to this work, reads "For all Necessary Materials For Fly Making, as described in this work, and all matters connected with angling, see our new Illustrated Catalogue. Published by Henry Whitty, At Edmundson's Anglers' Dept. 15, Basnett Street, Liverpool - Established 1819". [ Mr. John Austin has kindly provided the following bibliographical information: "The First Edition was published circa 1855, by John Edmondson, fishing tackle dealer, who died in 1858. James Edmondson, John's son, took over the business from his father in 1856 and Henry Whitty was apprenticed to James from 1857. In 1874 the business was sold to Whitty, who republished the book in 1886. (review in The Field). The volume here offered is the Second Edition 1st Issue, [The Second Edition, 2nd Issue has the Whitty advert at the rear missing.]".

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