You get 4 books... the Knoll book is soft cover and the rest are HB with nice dust jackets .. these are nice pattern books
1. QUILL GORDON 1972.. 195 pgs ..."A fly-fisherman's feast of rare items from the author's streamside
experiences and from his perusal of fascinating historical curiosities
in angling lore". Essays on Berners, Walton, Cotton, Gordon, Bethune,
early flies, steelhead, Yellowstone. Good colour plates of flies,
including those of Berners. "Two fine artists, John Atherton and John
Langley Howard, painted the trout and salmon flies shown on these pages
from models supplied by the author and the noted fisheries biologist and
angler, Dwight Webster. The paintings, widely regarded as modern
classics of angling, have been unavailable for a long time." Colour
plates of these paintings appear between pages 52 and 53, and are
discussed in Chapter 10. Chapters include: Quill gordon; the origins of
angling; Gordon and American fly-fishing; The Bergdorf Goodman fly;
Green Drake eyes; Yellowstone waters; Armstrong's Creek; All the big
ones got away; Canyon fishing for steelhead; Salmon flies; The first
modern trout flies; Dame Juliana; the first known essay on sport fishing
- The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle; The first known essay on
fly-fishing."
4.. Arthur James Lingren is a fly fishing historian born in Vancouver on
January 5th, 1943 near the banks of the Fraser River. In the last 40
years he has written and collaborated on over 16 books about fly fishing
and angling in B.C., and he has cultivated a long list of friends along
the way. Through over four decades of writing, fishing, and fly tying,
Art continues to demonstrates that fly fishing is ultimately about
creativity, collaboration, and camaraderie as much as it is about
catching fish on a fly. Fly fishing is a celebration of friends, nature,
and passions that bring people together."