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Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Five charming volumes on angling, including poems from the rivers, containing insightful advice on trout and fly fishing. Five charming volumes on angling and fishing, published between 1930-1949, including first editions, woodcut engravings, and insightful passages from fishing enthusiasts.In the publisher's original cloth.- Fly Fishing, written by former Liberal foreign secretary Viscount Grey of Fallodon, with charming woodcut engravings by Eric Fitch Dalglish. Reprinted illustrated edition. Contains all ten plates, including a frontispiece. Collated complete. (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1930).- Fishing Ways and Fishing Days: Some Hints and Suggestions for the Pursuit of the Migratory Fish and Low-Water Fishing, written by John E. Hutton, and illustrated with his photographs. First edition. Contains all eight plates, including a frontispiece. Collated complete. (H.F. and G. Witherby, 1930).- An Angler's Anthology, collected by A.B. Austin, containing numerous passages and poems, relating to angling from various figures, including Lord Byron. First edition. (Country Life, 1930).- Trout Flies: A Discussion and Dictionary, written by A. Courtney Williams. First edition. Contains fifteen plates, including a frontispiece, and seven in colour. Collated complete. (A. & C. Black, 1932).- A Dictionary of Trout Flies and of Flies for Sea-trout and Grayling, written by A. Courtney Williams. A substantially revised edition. Contains all sixteen plates, including a frontispiece and eight in colour. (A. & C. Black, 1949). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd faint handling mark and slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, a little heavier to Austin extremities. Fading to spine of Austin, and minor rubbing to joints, very light to Williams (1949). End papers are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot, mostly to rear end papers of both Williams, and offsetting to free end papers of Hutton. Christmas ink inscription to front free end paper of Fallodon. Internally, firmly bound, with minor strain to hinge between blank and half-title of Austin. Pages are bright and clean, with the faint odd spot to first and final leaves, a little heavier to Williams (1932) and Hutton, lighter to Williams (1949). Very Good. Eric Fitch Daglish; J.E. Hutton; Various (illustratore). book.…