ON ANGLING. 



Venables (Colonel Robert), The Experienced Angler ; 

 or, Angling improved, being a General Discourse of 

 Angling. 8vo. Lond. 1662. 



(Advertised as now newly extant* in the Kingdom's In- 

 telligencer of Sept. 9, 1661.) 



2nd edit. 12mo. Lond. 3rd edit. 12mo. Lond. 1668. 

 4th edit. 12mo. Lond. 1676. 5th edit. 12mo. Lond. 

 1683. 6th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1825. A reprint, with a 

 Memoir of Colonel Robert Venables prefixed. 



The second edition was probably printed about 1666, and 

 burnt in the great fire ; no copy is at present known. 



Col. Venables' name first appears in the third edition. 



(The fourth edition forms the third part of the Universal 

 Angler.) 



The Universal Angler; or, that Art Improved in all its 

 parts, especially in Fly-Fishing. The whole interspersed 

 with many curious and uncommon observations. 12mo. 

 Lond. 1766. 



(This book is copied from Bowlker's Art of Angling, printed 

 at Worcester, with some few additions taken from Walton, 

 Cotton, and Hawkins.) Wm. White. 



Walton's (Isaac, of Stafford) Compleat Angler; or, the 

 Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse 

 of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most 

 Anglers. 12mo. Lond. 1653. 2nd edit. 12mo. Lond. 

 1655. 3rd edit. 12mo. Lond. 1664. 4th edit. 12mo. 

 Lond. 1668. 5th edit. 12mo. forming the first of the 

 Universal Angler, by Walton, Cotton, and Venables. 

 12mo. Lond. 1676. 



The 2nd edit, which was published only two years after 

 the first, appeal's to have been almost re-written with the 

 introduction of a third interlocutor in Auceps, and great 

 additions in every part. 



The 3rd edit. Lond. 1661 and 1664, has titles of both dates, 

 no other variance. 



The 3rd edition is the first that has the postscript 

 touching the Laws of Angling, and an index. 



The 4th edition is a paginary reprint from the third 

 edition. 



