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. FRANCIS FRANCIS. THE FIRS, TWICKENHAM : 1867 Reviews In 1881, Osmund Lambert in Angling Literature in England wrote: In 1920, when A Book on Angling was reprinted, Sir Herbert Maxwell, a noted Scottish angler penned this in the Editor's Introduction: James Robb in an entire chapter devoted to Francis Francis in Notable Angling Literature (1945) said of A Book on Angling: In 1974, noted American writer Arnold Gingrich in his The Fishing in Print commented on Francis, Francis as a writer and his influence on notable American angler Theodore Gordon: In 2002, 135 years after the 1st edition of A Book of Angling, Tony Hayter in his biography of Frederic M. Halford wrote: Contents From the 4th Edition (1876) Chapter I – Bottom-Fishing The Origin of Angling, Pond-Fishing, Punt-Fishing, The Norfolk Style, Bank-Fishing, The Gudgeon, The Pope, The Bleak, The Roach, The Rudd, The Dace, The Chub, The Barbel – 1 Chapter II – Bottom-Fishing Continued. Nottingham Angling, Casting From the Reel, Daceing, Tight Corking, The Slider, etc. – 61 Chapter III – Bottom-Fishing Continued The Bream, The Carp, The Tench, The Eel, The Perch, Paternostering, etc. – 73 Chapter IV – Mid-Water Fishing. The Pike, Spinning, Trolling With the Dead Gorge, Live Baiting, etc. – 100 Chapter V – Artificial Fly-Fishing. Varieties of Trout, Instructions as to Rods and Tackle, How To Use Them, Weather, How To Choose Flies, Dress, Night-fishing -138 Chapter VI – Artificial Flies Contrast of Systems, Copying Nature And Copying Nothing, List of Flies For Each Month -185 Chapter VII – On Lake-Fishing, Etc. Lake-Fishing, Daping, The Creeper, The Beetle, The Worm – 250 Chapter VIII – Spinning For Trout Spinning for Large Trout, Spinning for Trout In Small Streams, The Par-Tail, The Grayling – 278 Chapter IX – The Salmon The Rod, The Reel and