"Several of the sketches ... have already been published under the signature of ʻPiscator ̓and ʻVenator.̓"---Pref. This is the English reissue of the 1859 , 2nd revised and expanded edition, which added new sketch not in the 1846 1st ed., or its 1850 reissue: "The Sea-serpent". Contains an anonymous introduction by an English writer identified in the 1918 State ed. to be by James Spence, MP for Liverpool.
