Walton in German. 221 



" FROM THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. 



" In putting forth this edition of Walton 

 and Cotton, the original (Bethune) text of 

 1847 has been strictly adhered to, except 

 where the marginal notes which Dr. 

 Bethune added to his own private copy 

 corrected an error, or added information 

 which at the time of its first publication 

 he had not acquired." 



In 1891 Messrs. Ward, Lock, & Co. 

 reissued this edition in one volume. 



In 1853 appeared the first of the 

 " Ephemera" editions of Walton. " Ephe- 

 mera " was the nom de plume of Edward 

 Fitzgibbon, for many years the angling 

 editor of Bell's Life in London^ and author 

 of some excellent books on fishing. He 

 was a thoroughly practical angler, and in 

 piles of notes corrected and brought down 

 to date the " Instructions " of Walton. 

 His editions, first published by Ingram & 

 Cooke, and afterwards by Routledge, 

 being cheap, have had a large sale. 



A GERMAN EDITION OF WALTON. 



It is perhaps unfortunate that the 

 edition of such an iconoclastic editor as- 

 " Ephemera " should have been selected 



