Lot 32
32: Blacker (William) Blacker's Art of Fly Making &c.
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Blacker (William) Blacker's Art of Fly Making &c. Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours,
hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of fly-fishing, engraved title and 20 plates including 17 finely hand-coloured plates of flies, tissue guards, very occasional spotting, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, original black morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Thacher pp.61-62; W&S p.33], 12mo, 1855.
***Originally issued as Art of Angling in 1842, and then in 1843 as Blacker's Art of Angling, but this is the first edition to include the detailed plates of flies..
