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Izaak Walton May Also Have Been Compleat Poacher
London experts weigh if Walton copied Henry Middleton in The Compleat Angler and The Arte of Angling. Dr. D E Rhodes says plagiarism did not exist then and authors used sources without credit while antique dealer Chalmers Hallam notes fishing books fear no plagiarism and cites a buyer who paid 7 pounds 10 shillings and later sold for about 15 pounds.
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