FLY FISHING. By Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Revised and enlarged edition with two extra chapters.

(1899) 1930 revised edition. 8vo (150 x 224mm). Ppxii,244. The 1st issue of the revised and enlarged edition with wood engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt salmon fly vignette on upper board.

The 1930 edition, revised and enlarged, with two extra chapters ("Spring Salmon Fishing - the Cassley" and "Retrospect") and five wood engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish". Some consider Fly Fishing (1899) to be the best fishing book ever written. The volume deals with trout, sea trout and salmon. Grey places fishing for sea trout on a pinnacle, and describes the greatness of salmon fishing. On trout, he was the first writer of importance on the dry-fly who really knew what the wet-fly meant. Although modest, he was an expert angler, and he detailed much that is useful and instructive. His prose is clear and vigorous - the book is a literary achievement of high order". (Flyfisher's Classic Library).