(1907) 2011 Medlar edition. Medlar Press. Ellesmere, Shropshire. Pp175. Colour plates of salmon flies, colour & b/w photographs & illustrations, decorative eps. Pictorial gilt black boards. Fine new copy.
Notes: This is a new an useful edition of this scarce and important book which includes the dressings of 345 salmon flies. This Medlar Press edition includes colour plates of a number of salmon flies newly tied by Ken Middlemist. Middlemist served an apprenticeship as a fly-tyer with Hardy's of Alnwick, tying salmon flies in the hand. Now with many years' experience, Middlemist is the last time-served practitioner of his craft. Some notes by Andrew Herd on Hardy Flies are include, as is a new forward by James Keighton Hardy, as well as the original introduction by the author. A fascinating and useful classic, with the addition of useful new plates of Middlemist's flies, authentically tied with a modicum of appropriate materials substitution.
