58 ADDENDUM. 



ADDENDUM 



BY J. E. M. 



THREE editions of the " Practical Fly-Fisher by the late John 

 Jackson " have, prior to this, been published ; the first and the 

 most valuable by Charles Farlow, of 191, Strand, London, and by 

 J. Shallow, of 71, Kirkgate, and Corn Exchange, Leeds, in 1854 ; 

 the second by Charles Farlow, and printed by George Harrison, 

 Cheapside, Bradford, in 1862 ; and the third edition by Mr. Joseph 

 Dodgson, of Leeds, and stock afterwards sold to Mr. J. Slark, 

 12, Busby Place, Camden Boad, London, in 1880. There were 

 practically two editions of the first and second, one having coloured 

 plates and the other plain, published at a cheaper rate ; but the 

 third edition was only issued coloured. All met with a ready sale, 

 nearly all the copies being bought up quickly, not only in York- 

 shire, but all over the country, the practical worth of the work 

 being at once recognised by all Fly-Fishermen either for Trout or 

 Grayling. But there was a serious fault in the Colouring of the 

 Plates of both the second and third editions that any Practical 

 Anglers could see at a glance. 



In 1889 Jackson's Work was added to and re-published at the 

 end of a re-istue of Major's Edition of the " Compleat Angler," 

 but the same faults in colouration were noticeable. 



On Messrs. Gibbings and Company announcing their intention of 

 publishing a fourth edition, I pointed this out to them and furnished 

 them with copies of all the three editions for comparison, they 

 being in possession of the original copper plates of the first edition. 

 The result is that purchasers of the fourth edition have a reprint, 

 word for word, of the first edition from pages 1 to 58, with a 



