SOME BOOKS FOR ANGLERS 



PUBLISHED BY 



SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND 00. 



WALTON AND COTTON'S COfflPLEAT ANGLER. 



The Lea and Dove Illustrated Edition. Being the One Hundredth Edition of Walton and 

 Cotton's ever-popular work, "The Compleat An?ler." Edited, with laves of Walton and 

 Cotton, by R. B. MARSTON, Editor of the Fishing Gazette, Hon. Treasurer of the Fly 

 Fishers' Club, &c, and containing a Reprint (by permission) of "The Chronicle of the 

 Compleat Angler," being a Bibliogra' hical Record of its various Editions and imitations. 

 Bv THOMAS WESTWOOD and THOMAS SATCHELL. The principal feature of this 

 Edition will be a set of fifty-four Full-page Photogravures, printed from Copper Plates, on 

 fine plate paper, of Views on the Lea, Dove, &c. 

 EDITION DE LUXE, in 2 vols., royal 4to, each copy numbered and signed, to Subscribers 

 £10 10s. nett. 

 The DEMY QUARTO EDITION, bound in half morocco, gilt top, £5 5s. nett. 

 "The noblest gift-book that has been issued for many years."— St. James' Gazette. 

 "Never has Walton been more honoured Among collectors, therefore, there is no ques- 

 tion but that the book will be attractive. It will be one of the forms in which the work of 

 Walton will be most coveted."— Standard. 



" These sumptuous volumes."— Spectator. " A truly magnificent edition."— Field. " This noble 

 edition."— Daily News. 



BEADY IN THE SPRING. 



DRY PLY PISHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. 



By Frederic M. Halford, F.L.S., Author of "Floating Flies and How to Dress Them," 

 "Detached Badger" of the Field, Member of the " Houghton Club." "Fly Fishers' Club," 

 &c. An Edition de Licxe, limited to 100 copies, and the First Edition of 500 copies, are in 

 preparation, and will be published this season. Illustrated with Plate* showing the Position 

 of the Rod and Line in making various Casts used in Dry Fly Fishing; also Coloured 

 and other Plates, giving the Lite History of the Mayfly; a Coloured Plan showing how the 

 Weeds in a River should be Cut, &c, &c. 



CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION, 



Edition de Luxe, imperial octavo, printed on the best English hand made paper, bound in full 

 morocco, with gilt top, with the plates on mounts. Limited strictly to 100 copies. Each copy will 

 be numbered and sinned. Price per copy. Subscribers, £•>. 5s. 



First Edition, royal octavo, printed on the finest printing paper, cloth extra, 500 copies. Price 

 per copv, Subscribers, £1 5s. 



N.B.— All Coloured Illustrations are hand-coloured in both Editions, except the plans illustrat- 

 ing Chapters IV. and XIII. 



FLOATING FLIES AND HOW TO DRESS THEM. A 



Treatise on the most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling. 



With full illustrated Directions, and containing ninety Hand-coloured Engravings of the 



most Killing Patterns, together with a few Hints to Dry-fly Fishermen. By Frederic M. 



Halford, '^Detached Badger" of The Field, Member of the Houghton Club, Fly-fishers' 



Club, &c. Second edition, demy 8vo, cloth, 15s., post free. 



"Of Blue Duns and Bumbles, of hooks and their eyes, 

 Of Red Tags and Coachmen, and all sorts of flies: 

 Of Wickhams, Red Spinners, and others, ne'er failing 

 To lure out of water the trout and the grayling- 

 Here Halford discourses, and shows a collection 

 Of ninety fly-portraits, all limned to perfection : 

 A capital volume, and n>> one will doubt it. 

 No fisherman now should be ever without it!" — Punch. 



NEAR AND FAR : an Angler's Sketches of Home Sport and 



COLONIAL LIFE. By Wm. Senior (" Red Spinner"), Angling Editor of The Field, Author 



of "Waterside Sketches," &c. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. 

 " Th a author is not merely an expert all-round angler, but is an all-round lover of nature ; and 

 he has the very happy faculty of knowing how to describe what he sees and what he has done. He 

 has fished, and shot, and hunted, and communed with nature the world over; and he describes his 

 adventures with a lightness and brightness of touch which to anyone who has in him the least 

 love of nature cannot but be irresistibly charming."— -Fishing Gazette. 



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is Devoted entirely to Angling, and gives, every Saturday, Original Articles, Reports from 

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