Wet-fly fishing treated methodically by Tod, E M - 1903

Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. Ltd, 1918. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1918. 4th edition. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Pages are prominently tanned with foxing throughout. Binding is loose, though pages remain attached. Front hinge is cracked. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Heavy staining to front board.

Great Britain: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. Center photos are partly loose. Pages are browned with age but clean. Boards are bent at corners..

BiblioLife, 2009-05-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-05-20. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Sampson Low, Marston and Company 1903. first edition, duodecimo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, gilt and black rule and illus to front board, frontispiece, xiii + 243pp, illus, VG (light wear and soiling to boards, v light bruising to corners and head and tail of spine, gutters slightly cracked, occasional foxing esp. to eps), lacks d/w

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1903 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A beautifully bound copy of the first edition of Ewen M. Tod's illustrated early twentieth century guide to wet-fly fishing. Featuring a portrait frontispiece, and nine photographic plates and illustrations. Collated, complete.Tod presents a treatise on the use of the traditional wet-fly in the streams and rivers of Scotland and the borders, with chapters devoted to tributary streams, the fishing of burns with the wet-fly, and an account of necessary equipment, 'including Mr. Tod's inventions'.In later editions, Tod stated that 1500 copies of this first edition were produced. Rebound in half calf, with gilt detailing to back strips, paper covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally fine. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting throughout, most concentrated to first and last few leaves, and page perimeters. Near Fine