NOTE TO THE PRESENT 

 EDITION 



Amateur Angler s Days in Dove 

 Dale was first published in 1884, 

 twenty- six years ago ; it has been 

 out of print for many years, and 

 may be said to be scarce. The volume contain- 

 ing Dove Dale Revisited and other articles was 

 published in 1902. 



I have now slightly revised Days in Dove 

 Dale, 1884, and called it the Phoenix Edition, 

 for it now springs out of its own ashes. I have 

 added to it the portion of Dove Dale Revisited, 

 which has special reference to Dove Dale 

 being the first fifty-two pages of that work. 

 The very flattering way in which both volumes 

 were noticed by the Press and by many private 

 correspondents justifies me in hoping that the 



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