the c Compleat Angler. 9 



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of error into truth, may be judged by the fact that, while 

 adverting to Cotton's contribution of the fecond part, he ftates 

 that he (Cotton) married Walton's daughter; an error 

 which he repeats, nine years after, in his fecond edition, and 

 only corrects in the third (1772), when he opens his eyes at 

 laft (thanks to Hawkins' Memoir), to the adoptive character 

 of the relationfhip. This blunder is now pointed out, we 

 believe, for the firft time. 



The (C Appendix" and " Short Rules," fupplied by Browne, 

 were ufeful additions to the original work. 



Browne's fecond reprint appeared in 1759, a '^ but coming 

 into direct: collision with Hawkins' firft edition, publifhed in 

 the following year, and giving rife, as it was, to certain heart- 

 burnings and jealoufies on both fides. He announces it, in 

 the title-page, as " very much amended and improved." 



One of the improvements (not an infelicitous idea) was the 

 enclofing " within particular marks, the parts which treat 

 merely of Directions for the Sport, that they may be pafTed 

 over, and nothing but the entertaining parts of the Book pre- 

 fent themfelves for thofe to whom thofe other might appear 



Mofes Browne's 

 Second Edition, 

 1759.' 



1 There are fome unimportant modifications in the title, to which the 

 original quotation from St. John is reftored. 



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