122 First Edition of tJie " Angler ." 



"The above portion of the title-page is 

 beautifully engraved on a scroll, with a 

 pair of dolphins above and a pair below, 

 and a bunch of fish pendent from the 

 tails of the upper ones on either side of 

 the scroll. Then follows in plain type : 

 ' Being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, 

 not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. 

 [And between two rules] Simon Peter 

 said, " I go a-fishing " ; and they said, 

 " We also will go with thee." John xxi. 3. 

 (London : Printed by T. Maxey, for 

 RICH. HARRIOT, in St. Dunstan's Church- 

 yard, Fleet-street, 1653.) ' 



" Izaak Walton's name does not appear 

 on this title-page ; but in an advertisement 

 of it in The Perfect Diurnal, it is said to 

 be ' Of eighteen-pence price. Written 

 by Iz. Wa.' It was published in the 

 beginning of the month of May." 



But this copy, although of the first 

 edition, is not one of the first copies 

 printed of that edition, as those contained 

 a printer's error, which, when Walton dis- 

 covered it, doubtless made him put on 

 his hat, and go with all speed to his 

 friend and publisher Richard Harriot 

 to stop the press. 



Since writing these lines I have had 

 a rare hunt all over my library to find 

 a copy of a reprint of the first edition 



