 Mary Orvis Marbury produced one of American fishing literature's milestone volumes, "Favorite Flies and Their Histories" (1892), which not only served generations as the bible of fly patterns but further strengthened the company's reputation for expertise and reliability


...the book which captured the American wet-fly tradition at its peak was Charles' [Orvis] daughter's "Favorite Flies".Mary ran the Orvis company's fly tying department and she was inspired to set pen to paper when she realised how little standardization there was among fly patterns...The answers were compiled and key to colour plates in a book which was still in print sixty years later, such was its popularity


From Antiquarian Book Exchange


Bibliography of fly fishing