ON the Riches of the Unive

S. Wale Inv.

Ryland Sculp

Pub According to Act of Parliam 1759

1

Thirty COPPER-PLATE CUTS of the several Kinds
OF RIVER FISH, of the Implements used in ANGLING,
and Views of the principal Scenes described in the Book.

Printed for JOHN and FRANCIS RIVINGTON, (N°62) at
the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church Yard;
and T. CASLON, in Stationers-Court.

MDCCLXXV,

TO

EDWARD POPHAM, Efq;

LITTLECOT in the County

T

of WILTS.

HE benefits accruing to

literature from the pa

tronage of great and ju

dicious perfons, has generally been

deemed a sufficient excuse for ad

dresses of this nature; but however plaufible such a reason might feem, the editor of the following piece had forborne to avail himself of it, or to requeft the patronage of so difcern

ing a judge as yourself, if he had

not hoped that his prefumption would

have carried its own apology with it,

and been confcious that, while he

was foliciting Mr. Popham's pro

tection for so valuable a work as the

Complete Angler, he was at once in

dulging his curiofity, and gratifying

his benevolence.

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