PEEFACE 



TO 



THE FIEST EDITION. 



The Autlior of this little work entreats 

 that it may be considered and judged of as 

 the labour, or rather the amusement, of an 

 amateur ; whose chief object has been to 

 facilitate to the Tyro in the art, the making 

 and choice of artificial flies, on a plan of 

 elucidation^ derived from personal expe- 

 rience. 



Having himself sorely felt the inade- 

 quacy of mere verbal instructions to enable 

 him to imitate the natural fly correctly, or 

 even approximatively, and the little utility 

 of graphical illustrations unaccompanied 

 by the principal requisite, viz. colour, he 

 has been induced to paint both the natural 

 and artificial flv from nature, to etch them 



