PREFACE, WALTOX Complete Angler ranks, by common consent, among the choicest morsels of our early literature, not as a mere manual of the piscatorial art, but as a work of imagination and truth, full of fine sentiment and virtuous precepts. Many of our best writers-Sir Walter Scott, Sheridan, Hallam, Washington bring, Miss Mitford-have rung its praises and Charles Lamb says, that it would sweeten a mans temper at any time to read it, and Christianise every discordant passion. It is, therefore, no matter of surprise that the demand for this beautiful pastoral is coltinuoua, and that there are so many editions of it before the public indeed so many, and some recent, that it would at first view almost seem superfluols to add to their number. But the publisher placed before me such a valuable store of materials, the accumulation of years, that it was quite evident the proposed edition would surpass all its predecessors, and be a great boon to the public I therefore willingly undertook a...

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