Angling (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Angling<br><br>Every book should have a raison d'tre and it might be thought by some persons superfluous that I should have written another and a less comprehensive work after having written a book which contains so full an account of the art in every branch as "A Book on Angling," published by Messrs. Longman, and now in its fourth edition. The popularity which that work has attained might very well satisfy all my desires, but I have been told many times that my "Book on Angling" has not touched a very large class of anglers comprehended in those who cannot afford to pay so much as 15s. for a guide to their favourite amusement. Owing to the manner in which "A Book on Angling" is got up, and the expense incurred in producing the coloured plates - all of which are of necessity done by hand - there was no possibility of bringing it within the means of the large body of anglers whom I have referred to, and I have been asked again and again to write a book of a somewhat less extensive nature and without the coloured plates, or the long list of salmon flies contained in my first work. I have now yielded to this demand, and I trust that the present work may fulfil the requirements of the persons for whom it is written.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.