THE FOUNDING FLIES: 43 AMERICAN MASTERS, THEIR PATTERNS AND INFLUENCES. By Mike Valla.

2013 1st edition. Large 4to (223 x 286mm). Ppviii,312. Colour plates of flies, colour photographs throughout, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. .

An extensively researched and fascinating account of the lives and flies of America's historic fly tiers. This remarkable book covers forty-three American fly-tying masters including Mary Orvis Marbury, Thaddeus Norris, Theodore Gordon, Edward Ringwood Hewitt and George Harvey. Beautifully illustrated with over 500 colour photographs of the flies plus patterns for nearly 300 flies.