Bainbridge, George Cole, The Fly Fisher’s Guide, Illustrated by Coloured Plates, Representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature., Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1840

The Fly Fisher’s Guide, Illustrated by Coloured Plates, Representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature. By George Cole Bainbridge. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1840. viii, 135 pp. With 9 plates, 8 of which are hand-coloured. Ex library, with usual markings. 8vo. Publisher’s brown buckram binding with gilt lettering on front board. Binding sunned, rubbed, bumped and slightly cracked, library shelfmark to heel in white pen. Pages slightly browned, frontispiece has left a brown outline (of a fish) on the title page.