Lot 209A email save

Kelson (George M.) The Salmon Fly

Sign In to see what this sold for

first edition, half-title, frontispiece, 8 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards, illustrations, 45pp. advertisements at end and 1p. at beginning, occasional spotting, hinges weak, original maroon cloth, gilt, t.e.g., rubbed, spine slightly faded, upper cover a little marked, [Petit 1302], 4to, by the Author, 1895.

***Eric Taverner proclaims that 'there is no doubt that Kelson did a great work in making more precise the art of salmon-fly tying and in producing the first system of dressing flies to which the amateur of his day might turn for accurate instruction...'.

View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.

Similar lots up for auction