BOOKS ABOUT FISHING. 



N E of the most elegant works pertaining to 

 the art ever produced." — Once a Week. 



A QUAINT TREATISE 



^^Iflees anb tbe Hit a' Hrt^ficball 

 Iflec riDakinc};' 



By an Old Man well known on the Derbyshire streams a century ago ; 



printed from an old MS. never before published; the original spelling 



and language being retained, with Editorial Notes, Patterns of Flies, and 



Samples of the Materials for making each Fly. 



By W. H. ALDAM. 



With Two Facsimiles of Water-colour Drawings by James Poole, Esq. 

 Imp, 4fOj in handsome cloth cover, price £,iif 4?. 



" None but a perfect enthusiast could have conceived and carried out 

 so remarkable a work as this. Since Dame Juliana Berners wrote her 

 ' Treatyse of Fyshing wyth an Angle,' no work so remarkable has issued 

 from the press upon this subject. . . . The illustrations are . . . the 

 actual flies themselves, dressed by Mr. Aldam himself and ' by two of the 

 most accomplished fly-tyei-s in the kingdom.' . . . Every two or three 

 pages or so, in this book, there is a thick cardboard page, in which are two 

 counter-sunk oval medallions ; and here you have, first the fly, below it the 

 silk it is tied with, and the harl, floss, or dubbing for the body ; on one 

 side is the feather from which the wings are made ; on the other, the hackle 

 for the legs." — Field. 



" No verbal description can convey the idea of shades of colour ; but 

 the student of fly-making has the colours and materials themselves before 

 him." — Times. 



" Fly-fishers will be delighted with this book." — Standard. 



" Those who are fond of fly-fishing should obtain a copy of this hand- 

 some ,and most useful work, which is not only interesting to anglers, but 

 also to the public in general who admire perseverance, taste, and fii-st-class 

 workmanship." — Frank Buckland. 



