Favorite Flies and Their Histories. With Many Replies from Practical Anglers to Inquiries Concerning How, When, and Where to Use Them

Boise: Houghton Mifflin, [1892]. Fifth impression. Large octavo (24cm). Forest-green cloth over lighter green, pictorial cloth-covered boards; x,[1]-519pp; frontispiece and 45 unnumbered leaves of plates, of which 32 are in color. Trace of wear at crown of spine, slight darkening to board edges, else a complete and tidy copy, Near Fine. Early gift inscription, "Ever attachedly yours," signed by an Ervan G. Riggs, dated 1906.

A very nice copy of this classic of angling literature, featuring thirty-two detailed color lithographic illustrations of flies designed and tied by the author's father, the fly-fishing master and entrepreneur Charles F. Orvis (1831-1915). One of the first truly popular treatises on the art of fly-tying, the book went into numerous printings and did much to standardize the names and designs of classic flies.