Item #900500 Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle: Suggestions As To Their Manufacture and Use. Henry P. Wells.
Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle: Suggestions As To Their Manufacture and Use

Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle: Suggestions As To Their Manufacture and Use

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 7-1/2", gilt and black decorated green cloth, brown endpapers, 364pp index, 4pp ads, illus., frontis. plate with tissue guard.

Item #900500

Henry Wells' classic on fly-fishing equipment, its production and use - including chapters on fish-hooks, lines, leaders, reels, rods & rod materials, rod-making, repairs, casting the fly, flies and fly-fishing, and miscellaneous suggestions.

Contemporary bookpate first free endpaper, a few small spots to front endpapers, spine a bit dulled, tight, square, very good.

Price: $150.00

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