(1888) 2007 new edition. Flyfisher's Classic Library. Moretonhampstead, Devon. De luxe edition. Ppviii,64. Colour plates, one folding. Full leather with 15 actual flies inset. Cloth presentation box. Fine in slip-case. Edn ltd to 20 numbered copies with flies.
Notes: "We have reproduced the very rare 1888 first edition of The Book of the Grayling by T.E. Pritt published by Goodall and Suddick of Leeds. This book is split into two chapters: "All about Him" and "When, Where, and How to Catch Him." There are three colour plates : 1 fold out of a grayling, 1 of flies and 1 of floats and the dorsal fin of a grayling plus 2 pages of advertisements". With a new introduction by angling historian, John Austin. The De luxe edition is limited to 20 copies only, each with a set of 15 grayling flies. The flies were tied by Stuart Bowdin on silk worm gut for inclusion in this de luxe edition which is displayed in a silk-lined buckram presentation box.
