Contents. xxiii 



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Clerkenwell when His Compleat Angler was 

 First Published Walton a Staunch Royal- 

 ist Incident After the Battle of Worcester 

 Death of His Second Wife Lives at the 

 Houses of Dr. Morley, Bishop of Winches^^X 

 ter, and Dr. Ward, Bishop of Salisbury- 

 Dies at Winchester, December i5th, 1683 . 103 \ 



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CHAPTER VIII. 



The First Editions of The Compleat Angler 

 Effect on My Library of the Abnormally 

 Early May-Fly Season of this Year (1893) 

 Curious Printer's Error in the Copies First 

 Printed of the A ngler Walton's First 

 Title- Page His "Epistles Dedicatory" 

 and ' Addresses to the Reader " Some 

 Past and Present Money- Values of a First 

 Edition 121 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Second Edition of The Compleat Angler 

 The Illustrations An Interesting Discovery 

 The Third and Fourth Editions The 

 more Important Fifth, with Cotton's Addi- 

 tion Venables' Expcrienc'd Angler, Pub- 

 lished with the Fifth Edition Walton's 

 Letter to Venables, and some Account of 

 the Latter Charles Cotton's " Instructions 

 How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a 

 Clear Stream " Some Account of Cotton 

 His Friendship with Walton His Family 

 Affairs and Death 1 38 



CHAPTER X. 



An Estimate of the Influence of Walton's Book 

 on Angling and Angling Literature It can 

 Never be Antiquated Has Kept the True 



