the ' Compleat Angler. 



1 1 



enlarged," this muft apply rather to a comparifon with the 

 firft. edition, as the changes in the body of the work are but 

 few and unimportant, with reference to the fecond. In the 

 Dedication a few phrafes are altered, the Addrefs to the 

 Reader is rehandled, a new Table of Contents is given, Alex. 

 Brome's Commendatory Verfes are omitted, and the chapter 

 on the Laws of Angling (as indicated in the title) appears for 

 the firft time. 



In the fourth edition, publifhed in 1668, we have a mere 

 paginary reprint of its immediate forerunner, with the ex- 

 ception of the {C errata," which are here corrected. 



It was followed, in 1676, by the fifth, which fometimes 

 bears the title of Cf The Univerfal Angler," when confirming of 



Fourth Edition, 

 1668. ' 



Fifth Edition, 

 1676. 2 



1 The former part of the title the fame as the preceding. 



" The fourth Edition, much correcled and enlarged. London, Printed for 

 R. Harriot, and are to be fold by Charles Harper, at his Shop, the next door 

 to the Crozvn, near Sergeants-Inn, in Chancery-Lane, 1668." 



Haworth, 899, il. 19/. Milner, 154, 2/. 15/. Higgs, 41, 3/. is. 

 Cotton, 163, 3/. 17/. Valentine, 232, 3/. 3/. Pickering, firft fale, 306, 

 4/. Bindley, pt. iii., 1934, 15-f. Taylieure, 234, \l. 5/. Haflewood, 1500 

 and 1 501, 3/. is. and \l. 12s. White Knights, 4361, \l. zs. Jadis, 4/. 



2 We give the titles and collation of the collective work : — 



To the engraved title is added, " The firft part,'' and underneath (printed) 

 "Parti. Being a Difcourfe," &c. " Written by Izaak Walton. The Fifth 

 Edition, much correcled and enlarged. London, Printed for Richard Marriott, 

 1676." 



After which comes the collective printed title : " The Univerfal Angler, 

 Made fo, by Three Books of Fifhing. The Firft Written by Mr. Izaak 

 Walton ; The Second By Charles Cotton, Efq ; The Third By Col. Robert 

 Venables. All which may be bound together, or fold each of them feverally. 



