the c Compleat Angler.' 



an appreciation of it at this prefent hour of the clock, feems 

 equally uncalled for. It is enough, that fifty- three editions or 

 reprints have, up to this date, ifTued from the prefs, and that 

 there are few libraries in the land in which, in one fhape or 

 other, it does not hold a foremoft and an honoured place. 



The fuccefs of Walton's firft eflay in angling literature feems 

 to have ftimulated him to increafed effort in preparing the 

 fecond edition for the prefs. He all but re-wrote the work, in 

 fad, adding more than one-third (109 pages) to its original 

 bulk, and introducing many improvements. The interlocutors 

 are three in this edition, Pifcator, Venator (who takes the place 

 of Viator), and Auceps. The work is extended to twenty-one 

 chapters, and 3$$ pages, 2 the type, however, being larger. 

 Some very flight variations occur in the Dedication, but feveral 

 paffages were added to the Addrefs to the Reader, wherein 

 Walton fays, " that in this fecond impreflion there are many 

 enlargements, gathered both by my own obfervation and the 

 communication of my friends." 



To the plates of fifh are added the bream, the eel, the loach, 

 and the bull-head; and the commendatory verfes 3 appear in 

 this edition for the firft time. 



Seconi Edition, 

 1655.' 



1 " The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being 

 a Difcourfe of Rivers, and Fifh-Ponds, and Fifh, and Fifhing. Not unworthy 

 the perufal of moft Anglers. The fecond Edition, much enlarged. 



"John 21, 3., Simon Peter faith, &e. 

 " London, printed by T. M. for Rich. Marriot, and are to be fold at his 

 Shop in St. Dunjlans Church-yard, Fleet ftreet. 1655." 



2 Sigs. A 2 to Q_io, in twelves; 25 preliminary pages, and 1 blank. 



3 By feven different eulogifts. 



