X PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



separate class of flies, in which a special peculiarity of 

 manufacture is evident. 



I have to thank many kind friends for assistance in lend- 

 ing tackle and flies as subjects for the engravings, and 

 also for description, as will be found in the body of the 

 work. 



I have given much time to this book, but I have given 

 it willingly, for it was indeed and in truth a labour of 

 love. Whether the Angling public, to whom I dedicate 

 it (desiring no more potent patron), will appreciate my 

 labours remains to be seen; and so, without further 

 apology if an attempt to supply a long-felt and obvious 

 want, the existence of which few persons have been in a 

 position to know and feel so well as myself, be thought to 

 require an apology into their hands I commit it. 



FBANCIS FBANCIS. 



THB FIBS, TWICKENHAM : 1867. 



