| Title | Source (please let me know if editions are available - and where they can be obtained) |
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available | Availability/publisher of most recent edition - where blank, I am not aware of a modern edition |
| Anon, Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water, 1851 | |
| Ashley Cooper, The Great Salmon Rivers of Scotland, Gollancz, 1980 | |
| Anon, The Arte of Angling, 1577 | Fly Fisher's Classic Libraryand also by Princeton University Press in 1956 and 1958 - both these editions are still quite cheap. |
| Bainbridge, The Fly Fisher's Guide, 1816 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Barker, Barker's Delight or The Art of Angling, 1651 | |
| Belton, The Angler in Ireland, 1834 | |
| Best, A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, 1786 |
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| Bickerdyke, The Book of the All-Round Angler, 1922 | |
| Bowlker, The Art of Angling, 1746 | |
| Brookes, The Art of Angling now Improved with Additions and Formed into a Dictionary, 1766 | |
| Brown, American Angler's Guide, 1845 | |
| Carrere, La pesca de la trucha con mosca artificial, 1963 | |
| Carter Platts, Modern Trout Fishing, 1938 | |
| Chetham, The Angler's Vade Mecum, 1681 | |
| Cholmondelely-Pennell, The Modern Practical Angler, 1870 | |
| Cholmondely-Pennell (ed), Fishing, The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 1885 | |
| Cholmondely-Pennell, Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle, 1887 | |
| Chitty, The Illustrated Fly-Fisher's Text-Book, 1845 | |
| Cole, The Young Angler's Pocket Companion, or a New and Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling, 1795 | |
| Cutcliffe, Trout Fishing in Rapid Streams, 1863 | |
| Daniel, Rural Sports, 1807 | |
| Dennys ed. Lawson, Secrets of Angling, 1690 | Best source - 'Social England Illustrated' Cooper Square (1964) Out of print |
| Dewar, The Art of Fly Making, 1855 Dewar, The Book of the Dry Fly, 1897 | |
| Dunne, Sunshine and the Dry Fly, 1924 | |
| Fitzgibbon (ed), A True Treatise on the Art of Fly Fishing, Trolling etc., 1838 | |
| Fitzgibbon, A Handbook of Angling, 1847 | |
| Fitzgibbon, The Book of the Salmon, 1850 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Fortin, Les Ruses Innocentes , 1660 | |
| Foster, The Scientific Angler, 1882 | |
| Francis, A Book on Angling, 1867 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Franck, Northern Memoirs, 1694 | |
| Gingrich, The Joy of Trout, 1973 | |
| Goddard and Clarke, The Trout and the Fly, 1980 | |
| Goodspeed, Angling in America, 1939. | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Hale, How to Tie Salmon Flies, 1892 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Halford, Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, 1886 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Halford, Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice, 1889 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Halford, An Angler's Autobiography, 1903 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Halford, Modern Development of the Dry Fly, 1910 | |
| Halford, The Dry Fly Man's Handbook, 1913 | |
| Harding, The Fly Fisher and the Trout's Point of View, 1931 | |
| Hardy, Salmon Fishing, 1907 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Harris, An Angler's Entomology, 1952 | |
| Henshall, The Book of the Black Bass, 1923 | |
| Hewitt, A Trout and Salmon Fisherman for Seventy-five Years, 1948 | |
| Hewitt, Secrets of the Salmon, 1922 | |
| Hills, A History of Fly Fishing for Trout, 1921 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Hills, A Summer on the Test, 1930 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Hills, River Keeper, 1934 | |
| Hi-Regan, How and Where to Fish in Ireland, 1886 | |
| Hoffmann, Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art, University of Toronto Press, 1997 | |
| Howlett, The Angler's Sure Guide, 1706 | |
| Jacob, The Compleat Sportsman, 1718 | |
| Kelson, The Salmon Fly, 1895 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| LaBranche, The Salmon and the Dry Fly, 1924 | |
| Lawson, The Secrets of Angling, by J. D. Esquire. Augmented with many proved experiments, 1620 | |
| Mackintosh, The Driffield Angler, 1806 | |
| Malone, Irish Trout and Salmon Flies, 1984 | Coch-y-bonddu Books |
| Marinaro, A Modern Dry Fly Code, 1950 | |
| Marinaro, In the Ring of the Rise, 1976 | |
| Markham, County Contentments, c. 1612 | |
| Markham, The Pleasures of Princes, 1614 | |
| Marston, Walton and the Earlier Fishing Writers, 1903 | |
| Mascall, A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, 1590 | |
| McDonald, The Origins of Angling | Lyons Press |
| Maxwell, Salmon and Sea-Trout, 1898 | |
| Mottram, Fly Fishing, Some New Arts and Mysteries, 1915 | |
| Newberry, Beni Hasan, 1893 | |
| Norris, The American Angler's Book, 1864 | |
| Ogden, Ogden on Fly Tying, 1879 | |
| O'Gorman, The Practice of Angling Particularly as Regards Ireland, 1845 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Peard, A Year of Liberty, 1867 | |
| Penn, Maxims and Hints for Anglers, 1833 | |
| Pequegnot, French Fishing Flies, Nick Lyons Books 1987 | |
| Petit, La Truite de Rivière, 1897 | |
| Pritt, North Country Flies, 1886 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Pryce-Tannatt, How to Dress Salmon Flies, 1914 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Pulman, Vade Mecum of Fly-Fishing, 1841, 1846, 1851 | |
| Pulman, The Book of the Axe, 1854 | |
| Radcliffe, Fishing From the Earliest Times, 192 | |
| Rennie, Alphabet of Angling, 1833 | |
| Righyni, Advanced Salmon Fishing, Macdonald General Books | Modern reprint available |
| Ronalds, An Angler's Entomology, 1836 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Salter, The Angler's True Guide Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling, 1808 | |
| Saunders, The Compleat Fisherman, 1724 | |
| Sawyer, Nymphs and the Trout, Stanley Paul, 1958 | Modern reprint available |
| Scotcher, The Fly Fisher's Legacy, Honey Dun Press editon, 1974 Scotcher's Notes, The Honey Dun Press, 1974 | |
| Scott, Greased Line Fishing for Salmon, 1935 | |
| Scott, Fine and Far Off, 1952 | |
| Scrope, Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing, 1843 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Skues, Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies, 1910 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Skues, The Way of a Trout with a Fly, 1921 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Skues, Side-lines, Side-lights & Reflections, 1932 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Skues, Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout, 1939 | |
| Stewart, The Practical Angler, 1852 | |
| Stoddart, The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, 1847 | |
| Snart, Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent, 1801 | |
| Taverner, Certaine Experiments Concerning Fishe and Fruite, 1600 | |
| Taverner, Salmon Fishing, The Lonsdale Library, 1931 | |
| Taylor, Angling in All its Branches, 1800 | |
| Theakston, List of Angling Flies, 1862 | |
| Tolfrey, Jones's Guide to Norway, 1848 | Fly Fisher's Classic Library |
| Turner, Fishing Tackle, A Collector's Guide, Ward Lock, 1989 | |
| Turton, The Angler's Manual, 1836 | |
| Valverde, Manual de Pescador, 1879 | |
| Venables, The Experience'd Angler, or Angler Improved, 1662 | |
| Waddington, Fly Fishing for Salmon, Faber & Faber, 1951 | |
| Wade, Rod Fishing in Clear Waters, 1860 | |
| Walton, The Complete Angler, 1676 | |
| Walton, (ed. Hawker), The Complete Angler, 1760 | |
| Walton, (ed. Edward Jesse,) The Complete Angler, 1867 | |
| Ward, Marvels of Fish Life, 1911 | |
| Wells, The Contemplative Angler, 1842 | |
| Wells, Fly-rods and Fly-tackle, 1885. | |
| Williams, Angling Diversions | |
| Williamson, The Complete Angler's Vade Mecum, 1808 | |
| Woolley, Modern Trout Fly Dressing, 1932 | |
| Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, 1669 | |
| Wulff, The Atlantic Salmon, 1983 | |
