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KELSON, George M. The Salmon Fly: How to dress it and how to use it, London: published by the author, 1895. 4, portrait frontispiece, 8 chromolithographed plates of flies, illustrations, some full page (occasional light soiling), original burgundy pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g.
FIRST EDITION. This fine copy contains a loosely-inserted letter from the author to Albert Petit at 3 Rue du Cirque, Paris, dated London 20 January 1901, thanking him for his invitation 'to fish the river Ell.' Hampton p. 57: "Every possible and impossible fly is described"; Petit 1302.
FIRST EDITION. This fine copy contains a loosely-inserted letter from the author to Albert Petit at 3 Rue du Cirque, Paris, dated London 20 January 1901, thanking him for his invitation 'to fish the river Ell.' Hampton p. 57: "Every possible and impossible fly is described"; Petit 1302.