This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.

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Most readers are familiar with the one volume version of The Golden Bough as an abridgement of the third edition, made by Frazer in 1922. The two-volume edition that was familiar to Hardy and Yeats remains a sketch.