Book Title : A Book on Angling de luxe limited edition
Author : Francis Francis
Type :De luxe limited edition
Price: £450.00

Writing in 1920, Sir Herbert Maxwell says: “ … I have never detected any fallacy in Francis's precepts for such branches of the fisher craft as I have practised, neither have I handled any book which gives such succinct and trustworthy instruction in every form of fresh-water angling … His experience was universal, his knowledge encyclopaedic.”

In addition to much information on contemporary trout and fishing methods, Francis devotes more than one hundred pages to the dressing of salmon flies. The colour plates are magnificent.

Although first published in 1867, FFCL has chosen the text and illustrations of the most complete and revised edition of the Fifth edition of 1880 with the additions of Sir Herbert Maxwell's eight page Introduction of 1920 plus the Francis Francis Prefaces to both the first and second editions.

One of the following salmon flies tied by the brilliant Danish tyer Flemming Andersen is set in the front endpaper: The Snow Fly, The Switching Sandy, The Black Dog, The Royal, The Owenmore, The Old Blue.

520 pages • 6 colour plates and 10 engravings • Fully bound in dark green goatskin • Raised bands • Gold tooling • Gilt edges • Hand marbled endpapers • Buckram, gold blocked, silk-lined presentation box. Each copy is individually numbered.