AN INTRODUCTION TO FLY TYING. By Peter Cockwill.

.# 1990 1st edition. Large 4to (225 x 285mm). Pp128. Colour photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

.# "This eminently practical guide to the art of fly dressing demonstrates that even the most beautiful and elaborate flies are created with the simplest and most inexpensive tools, and a modicum of common sense and patience. A vice, a sharp-pointed pair of scissors, hackle pliers, a bare bodkin, some imagination - and this book - are all you need". Chapters include: The essentials; Materials; Proportions; Techniques; Making your first fly; Winging; Dubbing; Fly patterns; Standard wet flies; Lures; Nymphs; Dry flies; Additional materials in common use; Special techniques.