Izaak Walton 



Cotton's Fishing Cottage, Beresford Dale, 



glers throughout the world, not so much 

 because of the literary merit of his book, 

 though that is great, as because of the 

 influence of that rare, restful, humanizing 

 spirit which so largely pervades it. It is 

 for this that The Complete Angler occupies, 

 and will in all likelihood continue to do 

 so for many and many a day to come, a 

 unique place among the best of our Eng- 

 lish literature. One of Walton's earliest 

 biographers (Dr. Zouch) wrote of it : 

 " In this volume of The Complete Angler, 

 which will always be read with avidity 

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