ADVERTISEMENT 



TO THE 



EDITION PUBLISHED BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS, 1760. 



THE Complete Angler having been written so long ago as 

 1653, although the last publication thereof in the lifetime 

 of the Author was in 1676, contains 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 interval of more 

 than a 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 intro- 

 duce the Authors to the acquaintance of persons of learning 

 and judgment 



All that the Editor requests, in return for the pains he 

 has taken, is, that the reader will do him the justice to 

 believe that his only motives for the republication of this 

 work were, a desire to perpetuate the memory of a meek, 

 benevolent, pious man, and to contribute something to the 

 improvement of an art of which he professes himself a 

 lover. 



Twickenham, April 10, 1760. 



[The Notes to this edition by Professor Rennie, con- 

 sisting chiefly of the correction of the errors of the original 

 in Natural History, are marked by his initials, J. R.] 



