RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-fisher's Entomology, illustrated by coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, London: Longman [etc.], 1839. 8, 20 hand-coloured engraved copper plates with tissue guards, original green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, paper spine label with short title in ink, partly unopened.

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RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-fisher's Entomology, illustrated by coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, London: Longman [etc.], 1839. 8, 20 hand-coloured engraved copper plates with tissue guards, original green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, paper spine label with short title in ink, partly unopened.

Second edition, with an added frontispiece representing a fine trout and grayling. Ten editions were published between 1836 and 1901, but the hand-colouring of the first and second editions is regarded as much superior to those that followed. W. & S. p. 178; Petit 1834.

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