If you like old fishing books this should be interesting for you. notes | instructions for FLIP BOOK ± »
- British Trout Flies – Micheal Theakson (1862)
- The Scientific Angler – David Foster ed. William Charles Harris (1883)
- British Trout Flies – Micheal Theakson ed. Francis M Walbran (1883)
- Yorkshire Trout Flies – T E Pritt (1885) – (1st edition of North Country Flies) (Bradford Central Library has a copy)
- North Country Flies – Thomas Evan Pritt (1886)12
- The Anglers Manual – John Turton – 1886
- The Northern Angler – Mr John Kirkbride 1887
- Ogden on fly tying, etc. – James Ogden (1887)
- British Trout Flies – Micheal Theakson ed. Francis M Walbran (1888)
- An Angler’s Basket – T E Pritt (1896) – original published posthumously (d.1895)34
- The Practical Angler – W C Stewart 1907 (revised)
- Brook and River Trouting – H H Edmonds and N N Lee (1916)56
NOTE on COPYRIGHT
Some of these books are still in copyright even though they were scanned in the US and their metadata may, incorrectly, state they are out of copyright and subject to US region copyright law. A libraries exemption clause may apply to the Internet Archive and the American libraries, but not to you, if you then infringe the original authors copyright. If the original was published in the UK they are subject to EU|UK region copyright law and are thus still in copyright until the end of the calendar year 70 years after the death of the final surviving author. e.g. books by George Edward Mackenzie Skues remain in copyright until end 2019, since he died in 1949. Brook and River Trouting – Edmonds & Lee remains in copyright until end 2021 since Norman Nellis Lee died 1951, later than Harfield H Edmonds
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WEB LINKS TO OLD CLASSICS
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=fishing
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=fly%20fishing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_fly_fishing
http://www.flyfishinghistory.com
- I have a 1995 facsimile edition [↩]
- He was a bank inspector and manager – lived in Headingley [↩]
- limited preview1 [↩]
- limited preview2 [↩]
- I have a 1997 facsimile edition [↩]
- Bradford based, Harfield H Edmonds – a Businessman. Norman Nellis Lee – a Bradford Solicitor d.1951 [↩]
If the link takes you straight to the book – fine – click on a page to turn over, usually the arrow keys work as well.
Press F11 on your keyboard to read it full screen, press F11 again to go back to normal
If the link takes you to the download page you can download it as a PDF or click the FLIP BOOK and read it on line
A lot of these books cover coarse fishing methods too. Clicking on the title (centre top of FLIP BOOK) will take you to a page with details of the other formats and options, downloadable? often versions for EPub, Kindle, DJVU, etc. are available
These are mainly hosted at the Internet Archive - www.archive.org and are out of copyright ((i.e. 70 years after death of author))
Sources are mainly U.S. Public|University libraries including the Library of Congress, which performs a function similar to the British Library, .i.e. copies of most|all published books are deposited. Available books have been digitised by the Internet Archive (which is sponsored by various companies including Microsoft) or the Google books project.
Many of these books were originally published in short runs e.g. 200 copies, many have been published in several editions either in the 19th century or even facsimile editions in the 20th or 21st century and so may be available in hardcopy, some in auctions at multi-hundred pound prices, facsimile editions at reasonable book prices, some even as print-on-demand paperbacks
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- I need to find the links to digitised PDFs | FLIP BOOKS | other formats.
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- Links to non-public domain may not be available or may be limited previews.
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BRITISH PUBLICATIONS
The Angler’s vade-mecum – James Chetham (1681)
The Driffield Angler – Alexander Mackintosh (1806)
The Fly-fisher’s Guide – G.C.Bainbridge (1816)
The Fly-fisher’s Entomology – Alfred Ronalds (1836)
The Angler’s Manual – John Turton (1836)
The Practical Fly-fisher – John Jackson (1854)
The Practical Angler – W.C.Stewart (1857)
A Book on Angling – Francis Francis (1867)
British Angling Flies – Michael Theakston (1883)
North Country Flies – T.E.Pritt (1886)
The Book of Grayling – T.E.Pritt (1888)
Grayling and how to catch them – F.M.Walbran (1895)
Brook and River Trouting – H.H.Edmonds and N.N.Lee (1916)
A History of Fly Fishing for Trout – John Waller Hills (1921)
The Way of a Trout With A Fly – G.E.M. Skues (1921)
Grayling Fishing – William Carter Platts (1939)
Border River Angling – W.H.Lawrie (1939)
The Rough Stream Nymph – W.H.Lawrie (1947)
International Trout Flies – W.H.Lawrie (1969)
The Grayling Angler – John Roberts (1982)
The Art of The wet Fly – W.S.Roger Fogg (1979)
A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies – W.S. Roger Fogg (1988)
Fly Fishing – The North Country Tradition – Leslie Magee (1994)
AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS
The Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing The Flymph – James Leisenring & Vernon S Hidy (1971)
The Soft Hackled Fly – Sylvester Nemes (1975)
The Soft-hackled Fly Addict – Sylvester Nemes (1981)
Two Centuries of Soft-hackled Flies – Sylvester Nemes (2004)
Tying & Fishing Soft-hackled Nymphs – Allen McGee (2007)
