Printed for JOHN, FRANCIS, and CHARLES RIVINGTON, M.DCC.LXXXIV. ADVERTISEMENT. THE COMPLETE ANGLER having been written fo long ago as 1653, although the last publication thereof in the life-time of the authors, was in 1676, contains many particulars of perfons, now but little known, and frequent allufions to facts, and even modes of living, the memory whereof is in a great measure obliterated: a new edition therefore feemed to require a retrofpect to the time when the authors lived; an explanation of fuch passages, as an interval of more than an hundred years had neceffarily rendered obfcure; together with fuch improvements in the art itself, as the accumu. lated experience of fucceeding times has enabled us to furnish. An edition, undertaken with this view, is now attempted, and in a way, it is to be hoped, that may once again introduce the authors to the acquaintance of perfons of learning and judgment. A 2 All All that the editor requests in return for the pains he has taken is, that the reader will do him the justice to believe, that his only motives for the republication of this work, were a defire to perpetuate the memory of a meek, benevo◄ lent, pious man, and to contribute fomething to the improvement of an art of which he professes himself a lover, Twickenham, 10th April, 1760, |