1816 1st edition. G.F. Harris's Widow & Bros. Liverpool, for the author. Ppviii,162. Eight hand-coloured engraved plates, 1 plain plate, text woodcuts. Lacking frontispiece & one other plate, o/w good-plus. *
Notes: "...Illustrated by coloured plates, representing upwards of forty of the most useful flies, accurately copied from nature." In 1816 Bainbridge described and illustrated in colour a calendar of natural insects of interest to the angler, and gave dressings for their artificial imitations. He paved the way for the later angler-entomologists. * Old cloth-backed marbled boards. Text-block cracked at centre of book. Horace Kippax's copy with his name in pencil on front free end-paper.
