FLY-TYING DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS. Text by John Veniard. Drawings by Donald Downs.

1972 1st edition. 8vo (153 x 216mm). Pp218. Colour photograph plates of hackles and materials, b/w illustrations by Donald Downs. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

Veniard and Downs "started their monthly Fly Tyers' Forum articles in Trout and Salmon magazine in February 1970, in which they sought the ideas of amateur fly dressers. The response was tremendous, and from the first 14 Forum articles came the book Fly-Tying Development and Progress. A section on the history of the fish hook and the development of fly-tying is followed by articles on specific aspects of fly-tying: Jungle cock eyes, hair hackles and fur bodies, tandem lures, parachute hackles, hair wings, fluorescent materials and tube flies".