The Complete Angler (1808) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION. IN consequence of the dca,th of the former edi- ioty Mure the publication .of the fourth edition of this work in 1784, the revision of the present has devolved upon me, his son. For the execution of this office, be had left behind him some corrections and additions, inserted in the margin of his copy of the fourth edition; which, though not many, have been all made use of on this occasion, from a wish that the book might receive the advantage of his last corrections. Such of them as he had completed, had been silently adopted, but such as were nothing more than mere hints, I have reduced into form, and distinguished them by the initials, J. S. H. and where these latter are continuations of former notes, have precisely marked where they stopped in the fourth edition, by placing the initials, J. II. I have, however, in no instance, varied from the last of the editions, published in his life, excepting where it was warranted by some memorandum of my father's, or by communications from intelligent friends since his decease, being myself wholly unacquainted with the subject. As the plates have, in consequence of the number of impressions furnished from them for the preceding editions, become so worn as to be no longer any ornament to the work, it has been found necessary to Omit them. Such of them, however, as represent the materials for jishing (and which, fortunately, had sustained less Injury,) have been retained ; and for the Omission Of The Rest, all possible amends have been made, by printing the book with a better type, and on better paper than could otherwise have been afforded. J. S. H. chapter{Section 4ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. THIS impression of the Compltte Angler differs from the last, in the fol...