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word "contention" appearing in place of the word 

 " contentment " : 



And if contention be a stranger then, 

 I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven again. 



The facsimile reproduction of the title-page of the 

 Cornpleat Angler given in this book is a photograph 

 of the title-page of the first edition of Walton in the 

 Bodleian Library, which is one of the first copies 

 printed, and contains the error mentioned above. 



It is needless to say that a first edition of the 

 Contpleat Angler is now a very rare and an extremely 

 valuable book ; a copy was sold in 1907 for ^1290. 



The second edition was published in 1655, and was 

 much altered and considerably enlarged. Auceps is 

 here introduced, and Venator takes the place of 

 Viator. The first edition terminates : " Pise : And 

 the like be upon my honest Scholar. And upon all 

 that hate contentions, and love quietnesse and vertue, 

 and Angling. Finis." The second edition ends : 

 " Pise : And the like be upon my honest ingenuous 

 Scholer, and upon all that love Vertue, and to be quiet, 

 and go a fishing. Study to be quiet. I Thes. 4, n." 



The third edition was published in 1661, and there 

 was also a second issue of this edition with a fresh 

 title-page dated 1664 ; in this edition the " Laws of 

 Angling " were for the first time included. 



The fourth edition, issued in 1668, is merely a 

 corrected reprint of the second edition. 



The fifth edition was published in 1676, and with it 



