CHAPTER IX. 



The Second Edition of The Conipleat Angler 

 The Illustrations An Interesting Discovery 

 The Third and Fourth Editions The 

 more Important Fifth, with Cotton's Addition 

 Venables' Experienced Angler, Published 

 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. 



THE SECOND EDITION OF "THE COM- 

 PLEAT ANGLER." 



HIS was published by Richard 

 Harriot in 1655. I have only 

 seen one or two copies of it in 

 twenty -five years; and as Mr. 

 Westwood, quoting Mr. Bindley, the 

 eminent book-collector, points out, it is 

 even rarer than the first edition, although 

 it does not command the same high price- 

 By the way, what will a first edition be 

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