MALONE, E.J. Irish Trout and Salmon Flies. Illustrated with eleven coloured plates and other illustrations and maps. LIMITED TO 60 COPIES ONLY

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984. Royal octavo. pp. xiv, 427. Limited edition of 60 copies only, this being no 24, signed by the author, with an example of “The Authors Personal Pattern “The Grey Thunder Fly in a sunken mount at the front of the book. Bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts in three quarter blue morocco, over white watered silk boards with a gilt salmon fly to the upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in fine slipcase.
A dictionary of over 800 traditional and modern dressings from an Irish fly-tyer’s notebook, there is information on hooks, fly-dressing materials and their preparation, with a guide to vegetable dyeing and the materials used to obtain the subtle colours beloved by the traditional fly tyers. Trout and salmon fly dressings each have their own section, and there are appendices that provide information on where to fish throughout Ireland, and often on which flies are particularly effective in each area. “To the sportsman who has his doubts about visiting Ireland in her present unhappy and troubled state, I would assure him of a hundred thousand welcomes, giving but one word of advice - talk of fishing, horses, dogs or whiskey, but avoid like the plague any discourse on religion or politics”.

[Cat 161]