American Trout-Stream Insects: A Guide to Angling Flies and Other Aquatic Insects Alluring to Trout.  Selected and Painted for Each Month of the Trout Season from Nearly One Hundred Living Specimens Native to the Rivers and Lakes of the Temperate Zone of North America.  With Notes on and Reproductions of Artificial Imitation Flies Tied by the Author.  And a Chapter on the Mode of Tying Artificial Flies with Assisting Charts and Illustrations in the Text.  Together with Descriptions and Illustrations of a Complete Set of New Artificial Nature-Lures.  Copied Exactly from Carefully Colored Life-Pictures of all Creatures that Bass and Other Game Fish Consume as Food.  By Louis Rhead.  1st Edition published in 1916 by Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York.

Rhead's most famous and celebrated work. At the time of its publication it was one of the first and most comprehensive studies of stream entomology in America. Rhead's account is generally pertaining to aquatic insects of the Catskills, where Rhead fished for many years.

Condition: Sound binding.  Spine is sunned and there is splitting and rubbing to top and bottom of spine.  Board tips bumped.  Some staining/toning to boards.  Former owner's bookplate and signature in front.  There is some splitting to endpapers over inside hinges but boards are very secure.  Some small tears in outer margins spotted.  Else pages lightly toned, clean and tight.  8  1/2"  x  6" with 177 pages.