Author:
GAIDY Charles
Title:
Ephemeras Mayflies Naturals and Artificials
Price:
£320.00
Year:
1986
Edition:
1st American Edn,
Publisher:
Edicom Inc
City of Publication:
New York
Summary:
333 pages, drawings and some colour plates by the author + colour photographs of flies by Thomas W Earnhardt, full tan leather, gilt title and coloured mayfly insert to upper cover, inner gilt dentelles in original leather edged slipcase, a fine copy. Original translated by Roland H Creel. This copy edition Francaise Reserve aux Bibliophiles Tiree A 50 Exemplaires Numerotes de 01 a 50, this being number 36 signed by the author. 27 lithograph plates of the most important ephemera are particularly fine. An important and comprehensive book on the subject. There were 3000 copies of the un-numbered trade edition in pictorial cloth. In addition to this there were 300 leather-bound copies, numbered and signed by the author. There was a further edition of 30 copies, numbered I - XXX, with a signed lithograph laid in. These three issues bring the total number of copies to 3,330 which is often quoted. This copy is from the "Edition Francaise reserve aux bibliophiles tiree a 50 exemplaires numerotes de 01 a 50", "French edition reserved for bibliophiles, numbered from 01 to 50.". Despite the appelation "Edition Francaise," this is an issue of the English language edition. The French language edition was entitled, "Les Ephemeres: Les Mouches Artificielles et Leur Montage." This too, was released in more than one issue.
Ref:
16464
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