144 The Fifth Edition. 



and corrections were made in this edition, 

 and the chapter on the Laws of Angling 

 " appears for the first time." 



The fourth edition was published in 

 1668, and "is a mere paginary reprint of 

 the second, with the exception of the 

 ' errata,' which are corrected in the work." 

 This edition was " Printed for R. Harriot, 

 and sold by Charles Harper, at his shop, 

 the next door to the Crown near Sergeants- 

 Inn in Chancery Lane." 



THE FIFTH EDITION OF WALTON 

 AND THE FIRST OF COTTON. 



The last edition of his work published 

 during Walton's lifetime was the fifth, 

 published in 1676. I have a copy of the 

 fat little volume, 6 in. by 4, in its original 

 binding, in which Walton's work is bound 

 up with those of Venables and Cotton. 

 In many respects this is the most interest- 

 ing of all the editions. It was the last 

 Walton had to do with, and the first 

 which contained his friend Charles Cotton's 

 " Instructions How to Angle for a Trout 

 or Grayling in a Clear Stream," written 

 with Walton's sanction as an addition to 

 his work. It also contains a most cha- 

 racteristic letter from Walton to Venables,. 

 whom he thus addresses. 



