EPHEMERAS "MAYFLIES": NATURALS AND ARTIFICIALS. by Charles Gaidy. Editor of English Language Edition Thomas W. Earnhardt.

1986 1st English language edition. Folio (244 x 337mm). Pp333. Colour plates of flies, colour photographs, bibliography. Elaborate and handsome full morocco gilt in leather slip-case. Edition Francaise reserve aux bibliophiles tiree a 50 exemplaires numerotes de 01 a 50.

Edited by Thomas W. Earnhardt, colour plates and illustrations by Gaidy and Earnhardt. A huge and comprehensive treatise on the Ephemeridae and their imitation. Includes a good section on rearing poultry for hackles and a comprehensive bibliography of flyfishing books in French. There were 3000 copies of the un-numbered trade edition in pictorial cloth. In addition to this there were 300 leather-bound copies, numbered and signed by the author. There was a further edition of 30 copies, numbered I - XXX, with a signed lithograph laid in. These three issues bring the total number of copies to 3,330 which is often quoted. This copy is from the "Edition Francaise reserve aux bibliophiles tiree a 50 exemplaires numerotes de 01 a 50", "French edition reserved for bibliophiles, numbered from 01 to 50". . Despite the appelation "Edition Francaise," this is an issue of the English language edition. The French language edition was entitled, "Les Ephemeres: Les Mouches Artificielles et Leur Montage". This too, was released in more than one issue.