ADVERTISEMENT 



TO 

 THE NINTH EDITION. 



THE English language does not, perhaps, con- 

 tain a book of more general and undivided popu- 

 larity than TUE COMPLETE ANGLER; it is praised 

 and loved by persons of all conditions ; and, so far 

 from being confined to those who are devoted to the 

 sport of which it mainly treats, it is a favourite with 

 many men who never handled an Angling-rod in 

 their lives. As a literary production it is a pheno- 

 menon, a work entirely sui generis, such as was 

 never before produced, and such as we shall pro- 

 bably never see again. Lucid and interesting trea- 

 tises have been very frequently written upon recrea- 

 tive sports, but, although the authors have had all 

 the excitement which an ardent attachment to the 

 respective subjects could supply, none of them have 

 been made to extend beyond the circle for whose 

 instruction or amusement they were undertaken, nor 

 have they in any instance filled so independent a sta- 

 tion in literature, as The Complete Angler has done. 



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