FLY-TYING PROBLEMS AND THEIR ANSWERS. Text by John Veniard. Drawings by Donald Downs.

(1959) 1970 2nd edition. 8vo (155 x 215mm). Pp124. Colour plate, b/w photographs, illustrations by Donald Downs, pictorial end-papers. Mottled blue / brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

"This little book is the result of a series of articles which appeared in the "Fishing Gazette" between October 1956 and February 1957". Covering all of the basic techniques of fly-tying with the clearest of explanatory illustrations, this is an excellent manual for the novice fly-tyer. Contents include: Wings and winging; Winding hackles and the whip finish; Double hackles and false hackles; Stiffening dry-fly hackles and hackling dapping flies; Making flies with 'parachute' hackles; Stripping peacock herls for quill bodies; Rare hackles - supply, demand and substitutes; Making 'shaving-brush' flies; Making herl bodies and butts; Preparing and tying in golden pheasant crests for topping and tails; Making 'dubbing' bodies; Mixing dubbing (furs) for bodies and storing for easy access; Making tinsel bodies; Making tandem hook mounts for lures, etc.; Making hair bodies and head of 'muddler minnow'; Making detached bodies; Hooks - terminology; Tying silks - colours to use; Fly-tying terminology.