The first literary reference to flies and fishing with flies was in "Ælian's Natural History" probably written about 200 A.D. That work discussed a Macedonian fly. "The Treatyse on Fysshynge with an Angle" was published (1496) within "The Boke of St. Albans" attributed to Dame Juliana Berners. The book contains, along with instructions on rod, line and hook making, dressings for different flies to use at different times of the year. Probably the first use of the term "Artificial fly" came in Izaac Walton's "The Compleat Angler" (1653),