THE SALMON FLIES OF MAJOR JOHN POPKIN TRAHERNE (1826-1901). Their descriptions and variations as presented by George M. Kelson in The Fishing Gazette, Land and Water and The Salmon Fly. Edited and flies tied by Paul Schmookler.

1993 1st edition. Square 4to (220 x 220mm). Ppxii,124. Full-page colour photographs by Ingrid V. Sils. Introduction by J. David Zincavage. Quarter tan leather over marbled boards, title and all edges gilt. Tan cloth slip-case. Edition limited to 300 copies, signed and numbered by the editor.

"George M. Kelson began his continuing series 'On the Description of Salmon Flies' in the spring of 1884 in The Fishing Gazette. The first eighteen patterns he discussed were a series of flies invented by Major John P. Traherne". (David Zincavage in the introduction to this book). This was Kelson's famous series of "Land and Water" salmon flies. Here Paul Schmookler reprints Kelson's articles from The Fishing Gazette and Land and Water, together with superb photographs of his reproductions of Traherne's classic salmon fly patterns. He combined his talents as a naturalist, a historian and a fly tyer, with the photography of Ingrid Sils to produce this beautiful work - the first of his "modern" classic salmon fly books.