PREFACE. 



THE present edition may be considered as an 

 entirely new work, so extensive are the additions 

 and so altered is its style of publication. This 

 will at once be evident to every one who com- 

 pares it with the previous editions. 



A considerable sale for the work in its former 

 shape a mere outline of the present edition 

 encouraged the hope that a more extensive and 

 complete treatment of the subject, on the founda- 

 tion already laid, might more deserve the appro- 

 bation of the angling public. The writer there- 

 fore determined to make the attempt, by entirely 

 re-writing the original, and by supplying such 

 new matter as he thought likely to be interesting 

 and useful. In the following pages, therefore, 

 the instructions for making artificial flies, and the 

 illustrations by which they are accompanied, 

 will, perhaps, be recognised as the most promi- 



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