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August ^ 1886 TJie Publi shers' Circular...
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August ^ 1886 Tjie Publi Shers' Circular...
August ^ 1886 TJie Publi shers' Circular $£
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By arrangement with W . H . Aldam , Esq ., Messrs . SAMPSON LOW & GO . are able to offer a few Guaranteed , Authentic , and Genuine Copies of A QUAINT TREATISE FLIES ? AND ? FLY + MAKIM . Edited by W . JET . ALDAM , Esq . I Founder and Honora-RY Member op the Derwent Fly-Fishing Club ; Honorary Membeb . of the ' Chatsworth , ' the * Darley Dale / the ' Hungebpord / and the Fly-Fishers' Club . DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK . rPHIS thick handsome quarto volume , cloth gilt , gilt edges , is uniqoe . It contains JL not only full descriptions of Flies which will kill in any Trout or Grayling stream in the world , but specimens of the Flies themselves with the materials for making them ( collected by the Editor ) , neatly fastened in cardboard panels * It also contains Two Charming Reproductions in Colours of Drawings by James Poole , Esq . Second-hand Copies of this Work are frequently marked in Catalogues at from Three-and a-half to Five Guineas . THE TIMES . — 'No verbal description can convey the idea of shades of colour ; here the student I of fly-making has the colours and materials themselves . ' I THE FIELD . — - ' None but a perfect enthusiast could have conceived and carried out so remarkable I a work as this . Since Dame Juliana Berners wrote her " Treatyse of Fyshinge with _ I an Angle , " no work so remarkable has issued from the press on this subject / I T . PLEWS , Esq . — ' All who have seen it are delighted with it . I W . PEAED , Esq ., 1 & . T > . — ' Unique in conception / I GK N . H . A . YDON , Esq . — ' The work of an accomplished fly-fisher / l HY ^« I . / / on OOLIjIITS o . ^ Sec < . M . necessity reinai , ^ - to , — the * Your neophyte pattern . s of The flies work are invaluable stands , unrivalled instructive , and to the is veteran likely , to a CKEO . BANKART , Esq . —' All anglers who delight in dressing their own flies must feel HI indebted to you for so many excellent patterns . ' ¦ I H . S . HALL and , Esq useful . —* hints I am -have greatl hel y indebted ped me immensel to your y in ' Quaint fly-making Treatise . ' . " Its beautiful patterns I ALFRED DENISON , Esq . . — ' I aim very much pleased with your book . ' H til * EC £ u 4 . Xj NOTICE . —Only a few copies remain unsold ; they tvill Fiave additional value from , the fact that they tvill contain JMCr . Aldam ' g I Autograph as a guarantee that the copies have heen arranged by I him , and are genuine . NETT CASH PRICE OF THE VOLUME , £ 3 . 3 s . H ( Before long this work must becoTne one of the rarest and most valuable of books on Angling . ) London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTOJST , SEARLB , & RIVIJSTGTON , Grown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , E . O .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 2, 1886, page 843, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02081886/page/25/
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