Fishing with the Fly
Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies
Collected by Charles F. Orvis & A. Nelson Cheney
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TROY, NEW YORK: H. B. Nims & Company
(1885)
Original 135-year-old chromolithographs
The lithographs are bright and colorful, and would make a cheerful addition to the den of any angler. Great in pairings of 3, 5, or more.
Offered here are the rare chromolithographs from the original printing in 1885. Perfect for the sportsman or sportswoman in your life!
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In 1883, Charles F. Orvis co-edited, along with A. Nelson Cheney, an important new book, "Fishing with the Fly," which featured the extensive subtitle “Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies.” The 333-page book was cloth-bound, the cover lettered in gold, and contained colored plates of 149 standard trout, salmon, lake, and bass flies, to accompany twenty-four articles by well known fly-fishers.
It was an irresistible catalog, a book to treasure, in which the authors guided the reader and introduced him to trout waters he would never see; let him shake hands with outdoor writers he would never meet, and gave him the ability to marvel over the illustrations of the flies, seductively arranged for his appreciation and appraisal.
"Fishing with the Fly" was one of the finest of America’s angling books, as it reflected an age when the American fly-fisher was developing his own graces. He was a sportsman tourist anxious for the full creel, yet at the same time the deep woods and waters became pastorals he could always remember. Certainly both Orvis and Cheney were sensitive to the sportsman’s love of nature and perceptive in their understanding of his environment. Adjacent to each page of color plates were quotations from angling literature, many taken from authors who had contributed to "Fishing with the Fly."
The book was so well received that it was continued in print for four editions. At the same time, the use of color was promoting sales for a wide variety of artificial flies. For $2.50, as the annual catalog stated, the purchaser enjoyed “color illustrations, the most correct and the finest ever produced.”
(The description of Fishing with the Fly, from the company history page at orvis.com) |
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SALMON FLIES
1. Prince Wm of Orange 2. Butcher 3. Jock Scott 4. Silver Doctor 5. Fairy 6. Silver Gray 7. Curtis |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| smudge in left margin and some light foxing in margins (could be covered when matted for framing) |
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LAKE FLIES
1. Silver Doctor 2. Scarlet Ibis 3. Black June 4. Gray Drake 5. Captain 6. Acadeny |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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LAKE FLIES
7. Ferguson 8. Abbey 9. Royal Coachman 10. Seth Green 11. Professor 12. Montreal |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
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LAKE FLIES
13. Bee 14. Tomah Jo 15. "No Name" 16. Blue Bottle 17. Grasshopper 18. Canada |
| REF #4 |
Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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TROUT FLIES
1. Coachman 2. Leadwing Coachman 3. Royal Coachman 4. Coachman red rip 5. Gilt Coachman 6. Cowdung 7. Fern 8. Blue Jay 9. Abbey 10. Red Ant 11. Black Ant 12. Seth Green 13. Professor 14. Blue Professor 15. Dark Stone |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
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TROUT FLIES
16. Silver Black 17. Scarlet Ibis 18. Stone Fly 19. White Miller 20. Fiery Brown 21. Yellow Drake 22. Grizzly King 23. Imbrie 24. Soldier Palmer 55. Chantry 26. Portland 27. Ethel May 28. Pale Evening Dun 29. Great Dun 30. Whimbrel |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper, faint dent upper right of image area |
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TROUT FLIES
31. Cinnamon 32. Deerfly 33. Red Fox 34. Camlet Dun 35. Governor 36. Green Drake 37. Alder 38. Cheney 39. Soldier 40. Hod 41. Kingdom 42. Oak Fly 43. Gray Coflin 44. Fin Fly 45. Beaverkill 46. Yellow May 47. Black June 48. Quaker |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| light smudge center left, mild age-toning of paper |
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TROUT FLIES
49. The Teal 50. Reuben Wood 51. Red Spinner 52. No. 6. 53. Hawthorne 54. Dorset 55. Widow 56. Grasshopper 57. Stebbins 58. March Brown 59. Shoemaker 60. Orange Black 61. King of the Water 62. Gen. Hooker 63. Gray Drake |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
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TROUT FLIES
64. Jungle Cock 65. Lake Green 66. Jenny Lind 67. Poor Man's Fly 68. Pheasant 69. Romelyn 70. Morrison 71. Katy-did 72. Claret 73. Hoskins 74. Caldwell 75. Iron Dun 76. Queen of the Water 77. Olive Gnat 78. Brown Coflin |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
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HACKLES & GNATS
1. Brown Hackle 2. Scarlet Hackle 3. White Hackle 4. Yellow Hackle 5. Ginger Hackle 6. Gray Hackle 7. Black Hackle 8. Coch-y-Bonddu 9. Gray Hackle 1. Emerald Gnat 2. Black Gnat 3. Soldier Gnat
Pennell Hackles
1. Brown Pennell 2. Yellow Pennell 3. Green Pennell
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| REF #10 |
Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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BASS FLIES
1. Cheney 2. White Miller 3. La Belle 4. Scarlet Ibis 5. Shad-Fly 6. Green and Gold |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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BASS FLIES
7. Hanshall 8. "Oconomowoc" 9. Oriole 10. Polka 11. Ondawa 12. "W.T." |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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BASS FLIES
13. The Triumph 14. Alexandra 15. Seth Green 16. Jungle Cock 17. Fitz-Maurice 18. Caddis 19. Davis |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
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BASS FLIES
20. Black Maria 21. Tipperlinn 22. Premier 23. Grizzly King 24. Ferguson 2d 25. Californian |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper |
| $124.95 |
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BASS FLIES
26. Manchester 27. Blue Jay 28. Imperial 29. McLeod 30. Black and Gold 31. White and Jungle Cock |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 3 5/8 x 6 inches |
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SKETCH MAP OF THE NIPIGON RIVER |
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Original 135-year-old chromolithograph from 1885
Copyrighted by C.F. Orvis, Manchester, VT
Lithographed by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 2 3/8 x 6 inches |
| mild age-toning of paper, a couple of fox marks |
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