PREFACE 



TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



THE Author of this little work entreats that 

 it may be considered and judged of as the 

 labour, or rather the amusement of an ama- 

 teur; whose chief object has been to faci- 

 litate to the Tyro in the art, the making and 

 choice of artificial flies, on a plan of eluci- 

 dation derived from personal experience. 



Having himself sorely felt the inadequacy 

 of mere verbal instructions to enable him to 

 imitate the natural fly correctly, or even ap- 

 proximatively, and the little utility of gra- 

 phical illustrations unaccompanied by the 

 principal requisite, viz. colour, he has been 

 induced to paint both the natural and ar- 

 tificial fly from nature, to etch them with his 

 own hand, and to colour, or superintend the 

 colouring of each particular impression. 



He therefore presumes to hope that he 



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