ADVERTISEMENT 



TO THE 



SEVENTH EDITION. 



THIS impression of the Complete Angler differs from the last, in 

 the following particulars : 



1. Sir John Hawkins having left minutes on the margin of his 

 eopy of the fourth Edition, which at once convey authority, and 

 serve as materials to a careful Editor to correct some errors, and add 

 to the information in Sir John's part of the work; it seemed a false 

 delicacy to leave his evident designs imperfectly executed by the in- 

 compendious expedient of a note upon the text, or a note upon a note, 

 toot uniformly reaching to all the paragraphs affected by the original 

 mistake or deficiency ; in this Edition, therefore, the new informa- 

 tion has been incorporated with fidelity, and instead of apprising the 

 Reader that particular statements are errors, they have been radically 

 corrected. 



2. The original plates to Hawkins's Edition consisting of repre- 

 sentations of fishes, illustrative and local views, and a head of Cot- 

 ton at the time of printing the last Edition, that become so worn 

 that it was found necessary to omit them ; new plates have therefore 

 been engraven to illustrate the present Edition, and these are not 

 copied from former plates, but have been engraven after the original 

 drawings of Mr. Wale, and other original pictures. But the sketch 

 of Mr. Cotton's fishing-house, and the view of Pike-pool, by Mr. 



