Author: SYLVESTER NEMES.
Title: Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies. A Survey of the Literature Complete with Original Patterns 1747-Present.
Description: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 2004. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). 173 pp. A multitude of clear and precise color plates showing a good many fly patterns and their dressing materials which are described within the text. Includes chapters on most of the accomplished English angling authors and their contributions to soft-hackled flies - the Bowlkers - George Scotcher - George Bainbridge - W. Carroll - George Pulman - Alfred Ronalds - G. E. M. Skues, etc. as well as several American authors, Paul Young - James Leisenring and Theodore Gordon among them. The book is bound in black cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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