ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER having been written so 

 long ago as 1653, although the last publication thereof, 

 in the life-time of the authors, was in 1676 ; con- 

 tains many particulars of persons now but little 

 known, and frequent allusions to facts, and even 

 modes of living, the memory whereof is in a great 

 measure obliterated : a new edition, therefore, seemed 

 to require a retrospect to the time when the authors 

 lived; an explanation of such passages, as an in- 

 terval of more than an hundred years had necessarily 

 rendered obscure; together with such improvements 

 in the art itself, as the accumulated experience of 

 succeeding times has enabled us to furnish. 



An edition, undertaken with this view, is now 

 attempted, and in a way, it is to be hoped, that 

 may, once again, introduce the authors to the ac- 

 quaintance of persons of learning and judgment, 



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