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duce Part I. by itself. This seems a great mistake, 

 considering how many years the two parts have 

 formed one book, and considering also how 

 pleasant in their lives Walton and Cotton were 

 together. 



The Experienced Angler ; or, Angling Improved, 

 by Colonel Kobert Venables, was published in 

 1662, and was reprinted by some booksellers, and 

 bound as a third part to one of the editions of Tlie 

 Complete Angler. Such copies were known by the 

 name of The Universal Angler. Walton wrote a 

 preface to Tlie Experienced Angler signed I. W., 

 though he says he had never to his knowledge had 

 the happiness to see the author's face, and that he 

 had accidentally "come to a view of the dis- 

 course" before it went to the press. This work 

 is now seldom read, and as it differs so much in 

 style from both Parts I. and 11. of Tlie Complete 

 Angler, it is hardly likely it will ever again form 

 one book with it. 



In Book-Prices Current, 1892, on p. 274, it will 

 be seen that The Universal Angler has had bound 

 up with it The Complete Troller; or, The Art of 

 Trolling, making four volumes in one. This last- 

 named book is described in the preface to a book 

 entitled The Whole Art of Fishing (E. CurU, 1714) 

 as usually bound up with The Experienced Angler ^ 

 and Walton's and Cotton's Complete Angler. I 

 cannot, however, find The Whole Art of Fishing in 



