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and unimportant. Brome's commendatory verses are omitted, and 

 the Laws of angling and a Table of contents added. A copy of this 

 edition, once at Chatsworth, formerly belonged to Charles the Second, 

 of " merry " memory, who was an angler as Rochester's verses, 

 quoted at p. 178, intimate in an unworthy sneer. It bears the royal 

 autograph: "car: Rex/' on the engraved title. The Walton 

 entries in the sumptuous catalogue of this library are among the 

 curiosities of bibliographical literature. This particular copy is 

 apparently assigned to the year 1667.] 



The complete angler, or the contemplative man's 



recreation. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and 

 fishing... The third edition much enlarged. London, printed 

 for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Simon Gape neer the 

 Inner Temple-Gate in Fleet-street. 1664. 8. 

 [ Copies of the 1661 edition with a fresh title-page.] 



The compleat angler or the contemplative man's 



recreation. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and 

 fishing. ..The fourth edition, much corrected and enlarged. 

 London, printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles 

 Harper, at his shop the next door to the Crown near Ser- 

 geants-Inn in Chancery-lane, 1668. 8. 



[ Collation : A to s in eights ; or pp. xvi. 255, i (blank), vii (The 

 laws of angling), i (blank), viii (Contents and Table). A paginary 

 reprint of the preceding edition.] 



The compleat angler or the contemplative man's 



recreation. The first part. Part I. Being a discourse of 

 rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. Written by Izaak Walton. 

 The fifth edition much corrected and enlarged. London, 

 printed for Richard Marriott, 1676. 8. 



[ The scroll has. on this occasion been " worked over," much to 

 its detriment, and "The first part" engraved beneath it. The 

 works of Cotton and Venables, the former in its first, the latter 

 in its fourth impression, were also appended to Walton, and issued 

 under the following collective title :] 



The universal angler, made so, by three books of fishing. 

 The first by Mr. Izaak Walton ; the second by Charles Cotton 

 Esq.; the third by Col. Robert Venables. All which may be 

 bound together, or sold each of them severally. London, 

 printed for Richard Marriott, and sold by most booksellers. 

 1676. 8. 



[ The second and third parts have the titles given under the names 

 of their respective authors and each part has a separate register and 

 pagination. The collation of Part one is : A to V3 in eights ; or 

 pp. xxiv, 275, vii. (Laws of angling), and ii (Contents). Following 

 the collective is a half-title with a blank space left for the scroll : " Part 

 I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. Written 

 by Izaak Walton. The fifth edition, much corrected and enlarged 

 London, printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper 



