FLY FISHING IN HERRIOT COUNTRY. By R.C. Dales. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2005 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 218mm). Pp224. B/w photographs, silk marker. Fully-bound in mid-brown leather with tipped on photograph plate to upper board, upper board and spine titled in black and gilt. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies.

The author describes his and his contemporaries' angling in Yorkshire rivers, bringing "to life some of those characters who fished for trout and grayling in the Yorkshire dales." R.C. Dales is a former partner of Alf Wright, who wrote under the pen-name of James Herriot. A short chapter discusses flies to use in the area. Chapters include: Brother John; The Monk's Pool; A lure and lumbago; The undulatory motion; Crackpots; The Priory beat; Charlie ruminating - a tale from Wensleydale; Alfred Fotheringay's trout; The nymph; Some peculiar peculier; Duffers; The boulders; The dragonfly; The quiet old stick; The Lulha fish; Waterloo Pool; The angry angler; With apologies to Alice; Flies and fallacies; The rod; A trout below a hunting bridge; Bullock's Pool; Dewdroppers; The inn by the river; The fishing hut; The other bank; The stream in the forest; The hook and the belly; A trout in the wind; The interloper; Book worms; Blunt's Wood; Charlie's first fly; A trout for Christmas (by proxy); Why fish in Herriot country?; Which fly; The anglers. This is a copy of the de luxe edition limited to 50 numbered leather-bound copies.