FLY-TYING ILLUSTRATED: SALMON AND SEA TROUT PATTERNS. By Freddie Rice.

1990 1st edition. Hardback issue. 4to (192 x 255mm). Pp160. Colour plates of flies, b/w illustrations, brief bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

Step-by-step instructions for tying fifty hair-wing salmon and sea trout patterns". The first part of the book traces the history and development of the artificial fly, fly design and the fly-tying tools and aids available. Hair and plumage and the ways and means to successful fly-tying are also discussed. The main part of the book comprises the patterns for tying over 50 proven salmon and sea trout flies: for each the materials are listed in order of use followed by step-by-step instructions. These correspond with numbered line drawings of the fly-tying operations, enabling the reader to follow through the various stage". A colour plate section shows a photograph of each finished fly. Published simultaneously in hardback and paperback formats, this is the hardback edition.