points... Again we have an editor who is no angler, a deficiency that is painfully felt as we peruse these dryly written, matter-of-fact, unsympathetic pages... This fine book, in a word, is over-dressed. It is Maudlin, the milkmaid, tricked out in a gown of brocade, with a mantle of cloth of gold... Nevertheless as this monument has been reared, let us accept it for what it is one of the handsomest publications of modern times, an ornament to the Angler's Library, unique of its kind, and perhaps destined to remain so.` Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, pp. 50-4.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With lives and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. London, Allan Bell and Co. 1836. 8°.

[A paginary reprint of the 1833 edition.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Edinburgh, [printed]: Fraser and Co.; London, H. Washbourne, 1836. 8°.

[Another impression of the same.]

The complete angler. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. 2 vol. London, Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet-street; J. Menzies, Edinburgh; T. Wardle, Philadelphia. 1837. 24°. [Collation: vol. I, frontispiece, pp. xi. 152; vol. II, frontispiece, pp. iv, 149. An edition without notes and forming a volume of Tilt's miniature classical library."]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With notes, biographical and explanatory, and the lives of the authors. London, L. A. Lewis, 125, Fleet-street, 1839. 8°.

[Collation: pp. xxvi, lxxii, 396. A reprint of Major's edition, the "Introductory essay" being omitted and the biographies of Walton and Cotton by Hawkins replaced. It contains 76 woodcuts and 15 copper plates.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation. By Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Embellished with portraits of the authors, and engravings of the river-fish described in the work. London, I. J. Chidley. 1841. 8°. [Collation: pp. xx, 314, 2 portraits. This is Cole's edition, with fresh title-page. The portrait of Walton bears the name of "W. Cole," while Cotton's is inscribed with that of "Hodgson and Co."]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With notes,

biographical and explanatory, and the lives of the authors. London, Henry Washbourne, 1842. 8°.

[Collation: frontispiece, pp. iv, xciv, 396. A reprint of Major's edition of 1839 both as regards matter and illustrations.]

Facsimile of The compleat angler; or, the contem1653.

plative man's recreation. The original frontispiece. London, Sherwood and Bowyer, 1844.) 32°.

[Collation: pp. iv. 335. No 17 of "Pocket English classics." A reduced woodcut facsimile of scroll is on the title-page.]

The complete angler, or the contemplative man's recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Edited by John Major. Fourth edition. London: D. Bogue, Fleetstreet; H. Wix, New Bridge-street. 1844. 8°.

[Collation: pp. lx, 418; 12 steel engravings, nine of which were drawn by John Absolon and engraved by J. T. Willmore, A.R.A.; and 74 woodcuts in text.

This reprint far surpasses Major's previous efforts in 1823 and 1824, although these have still maintained their position in public estimation. "The obnoxious 'Introductory Essay'...still sticks to the work, like a burr; but with this our censure exhausts itself; in other respects the volume approaches more nearly to our ideal of an edition consistent in all its parts, than any of its predecessors or successors. Wale's designs, repeated ad nauseam, are here suppressed, and the new series by Absolon...quaint, unaffected and picturesque, have the signal merit of seeming an emanation from and efflorescence of the book itself, rather than a set of artistic notions grafted on it... The woodcuts of fish give the varying tones and surfaces with great success; and the vignettes of scenery, by Creswick and others, leave far behind those of former editions." Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, pp. 55-6. Dr. Bethune says of this reprint: "Art could scarcely go further, and no more elegant volume could find place in a library."]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins... Edited by James Rennie... Manchester, Samuel Johnson and Son. 1844. 8°.;

[A paginary reprint of the Edinburgh edition of 1833 with the same illustrations.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation:... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Manchester, Samuel Johnson and Son. 1846. 8°,

[A stereotype-reprint of the previous entry.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Dublin, W. Curry, Jun., and Co. 1847. 8°.

[Another impression from the same plates.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation:... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Manchester: printed and pubilshed by Thomas Johnson, Livesey Street. 1847. 8°.

[Still another.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's. recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, by Charles Cotton. With copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings by the American editor [i.e. George W. Bethune, D.D.] To which is added an appendix including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, etc., ever printed. Also, a general index to the whole work. New York, Wiley and Putnam. 1847. 8°.

[Collation: Part I, pp. vi, cxii, 249; Part II, pp. 210. "Nowhere else do we find united so complete a body of angling-book statistics and so large an accumulation of collateral data." Chronicle of the Compleat Angler. The book is poorly printed and the illustrations are from the wornout plates of Major's edition of 1844. Some copies were in imperial octavo with duplicate impressions of the plates.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, by Charles Cotton. With copious notes,...Also, a general index to the whole work. New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1848. 8°.

[ A paginary reprint of the preceding entry.]

The complete angler; or contemplative man's recreation:... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Liverpool, Thomas Johnson, 1848. 8°.

[A stereotype-reprint of the Manchester issue of 1844, with the same illustrations.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation ... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie A.M. London: John Johnson, 30, High Holborn; Thomas Johnson, 22, Livesey street, Manchester. 1849. 8°.

[Another impression of the Manchester plates.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation ... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Manchester printed and published by Thomas Johnson, Livesey street, [ 1849 ?] 8°. [Identical with the preceding save in title-page.]

The complete angler; or the contemplative man's recreation in 2 parts: by Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton. With a new introduction and notes; and embellished with 85 engravings on copper and wood. London, Henry Kent Causton, 1851. 8°.

[Collation: pp. lxviii, 418 and 15 plates including frontispiece. "Mr. Causton on the strength of his descent from Richard and Henry Causton, the printers and publishers of Moses Browne's revival (1772) finds it incumbent on him to attempt a quixotic rehabilitation of Browne's editing and even to perpetuate some of his 'expurgations,' and all his notes." Chronicle of the Compleat Angler. The plates reproduce Wale's series of drawings borrowed from Major.]

tion:...

The compleat angler; or, contemplative man's recreaWith lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Manchester: printed and published by Thomas Johnson, Livesey Street, 1851.

8°.

[Another impression of the Manchester issue of 1844.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, by Charles Cotton. With copious notes,...Also, a general index to the whole work. New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1852. 12°.

[A paginary reprint in duodecimo of Dr. Bethune's edition of 1847, from stereotype plates.]

The complete angler. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. [Woodcut.] New edition. Edited by "Ephemera" of "Bell's Life in London" [ie. Edward Fitzgibbon.] London, Ingram, Cooke and Co. 1853. 8°.

:

[Collation frontispiece, pp. xiv, facsimile title-page, pp. 326 and 3 plates. A pretty and useful edition. A volume of "The illustrated library."]

The complete angler. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. [Woodcut.] Edited by "Ephemera "... Second edition. London, Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. 8°.

Collation frontispiece, pp. xiv, 309 and 2 leaves with explanations of plates.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation, of Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton. With lives of the authors, and variorum notes, historical and practical. Edited by Edward Jesse Esq. To which are added papers on fishing-tackle, fishing stations, etc. By Henry G. Bohn. London, H. G. Bohn. 1856. 8°.

[Collation: front., pp. xxi, 496 and one leaf with list of fishingtackle makers. There are 203 woodcuts and 26 engravings, drawn from various sources. Overcrowded with notes under which the text lies buried. Some copies are without the steel engravings. The unsold copies were re-issued with a new title-page in 1861.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Manchester, Johnson, 1857.

8°.

[Another impression of the Manchester issue of 1844.]

The complete angler; or, contemplative man's recreation... With lives, and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Halifax: Milner and Sowerby. 1857. 8°.

[A similar reprint and from the same plates, which had been purchased from Mr. Thomas Johnson.]

The complete angler. By Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton. 2 vol. London, Groombridge, 1858. 24°. [This is a reprint of Tilt's edition of 1837.]

The complete angler. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Edited by Ephemera of "Bell's Life in London." London, Routledge, 1859. 8°.

[Collation: front., engraved title, pp. 313 and 3 leaves with explanations of plates]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, by Charles Cotton. With copious notes,... Also, a general index to the whole work. New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1859. 8°.

[Another impression of the American edition of 1847 without variation save in date.]

Der vollkommene Angler von Isaac Walton und Charles Cotton, herausgegeben von Ephemera, übersetzt von I. F. Schumacher. Hamburgh, Solomon and Co. 1859. 8°. [Collation: pp. xii. 308 and 10 plates of fish and flies. The only translation of The complete angler into a foreign tongue with which we are acquainted.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing written by Izaak Walton and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton. With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Second edition. 2 vol. London, Nattali and Bond, 1860. 8°.

[Collation vol. I. port., pp. xvi, ccxii, iv; portrait; engraved frontispiece; pp. 129. Vol. II. pp. iv. 131-436, xxxii (index). A reprint of Pickering's edition, with pedigrees of Ken and Chalkhill added.]

The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With lives of the authors and variorum notes, historical and practical.