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[2], viii, 115, [1] pp. Half-title. Illustrated with 19 hand-colored copper-engraved plates. (8vo), original cloth, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition.

"It's impossible to overstress the importance of Ronalds...It is safe to say that no single book ever had the revolutionary effect on the angling world-that is, the actual practice of angling, as opposed to the recording of its annals-of The Fly-fisher's Entomology in 1836...He threw a bridge, so to speak, across the practice of angling and the science of entomology [and] gave fly fishing for the first time a systematic and scientific basis of distinguishing one fly from another" (Gingrich, The Fishing in Print, pp. 112-13). Litchfield 21; Westwood & Satchell p.178.