1st edition de luxe Smith Settle. Otley, West Yorkshire. xiv,218 top edge small 4to the text volume illustrated with colour plates of flies, tipped in colour photographs, folding map, black and white illustrations in text bound in full green morroco. The companion volume containing 30 specimen flies, tied by Simon Ashworth, on five sunken mounts. Bound in matching quarter green morroco over green cloth boards with cloth covered slipcase. Limited to 60 copies, ten copies hors de commerce (lettered A to J), this set No 5, signed & numbered by the author. Leslie Magee.A fine set of Leslie Magee's history of soft-hackle flyfishing has chapters on early Yorkshire Flyfishers and extensive lists of tying’s, and continues the line of Pritt, Walbran, Theakston and Edmonds & Lee, bringing together all of their patterns and much early material.