CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. PAGE 



Sporting Litekatxtre in France and 



England - . . . i 



CHAPTER II. 



The Treatise of Eishing with an 



Angle - - - - 16 



CHAPTER III. 



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From the Treatise to the Compleat 



Angler - . - - 36 



CHAPTER IV. 



Early Fly Fishing in France - - 49 



CHAPTER V. 



Charles Cotton and his Contem- 

 poraries - . - - 56 



CHAPTER VI. 



From Cotton to Stewart - - 82 



CHAPTER VII. 



Stewart and the Upstream School - 99 



