1975 · Montreal, Canada
by Bates, Joseph D., Jr.
Montreal, Canada: Privately Printed by the Atlantic Salmon Association, 1975. Limited Edition. Octavo. 430 pages limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is number 597signed by the author and illustrated by Charles De Feo and Milton C. Weiler, with index. This is an anthology of their writings in the first quarter of its journal, 1948-1974. The articles include pictures of unique flies, the problems of what frightens salmon, the origin of the dry fly for salmon along with several other articles including Dame Juliana Berners' The Treatise of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle by Julia Freeman Fairchild. Bound in full blue leather stamped in gilt depicting a salmon, (truncated)