Umve

S. Wale Inv.

Ryland Sculp

Pub According to Act of Parliam 1759

COMPLETE ANGLER:

O R,

Contemplative Man's Recreation.

BEING A

DISCOURSE

ON

RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH,
and FISHING.

IN TWO PART S.

The FIRST written by
Mr. ISAAC WALTON,

The 3ECOND by
CHARLES COTTON, Efq;

Illuftrated with upwards of

Thirty COPPER-PLATE CUTS of the feveral Kinds
of RIVER FISH, of the Implements used in ANGLING,
and Views of the principal Scenes defcribed in the Book,
To which are prefixed,

The LIVES of the AUTHORS.

AND

Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.

By Sir JOHN HAWKINS, Knt.

THE THIRD EDITIO N.

LONDON:

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,

dicious perfons, has generally been

deemed a fufficient excufe for ad

dreffes of this nature; but however

plaufible fuch a reafon might feem, the editor of the following piece had forborne to avail himself of it, or to requeft the patronage of fo difcerning 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 protection for fo valuable a work as the Complete Angler, he was at once indulging his curiofity, and gratifying

his benevolence.

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