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trators for their labors. The library contains copies of 

 both, also a copy extended to four volumes. The library 

 is also the possessor of the full set of the actual drawings 

 by Thomas Stothard, R. A., for this edition, done in 

 color (with the exception of the " Front View" of the 

 fishing house ; in its place there is an unpublished draw- 

 ing), and for which he made a special expedition to 

 Dovedale. 



One of the scarcest and most difficult Walton's to ob- 

 tain is the German translation of "Ephemera's" Edition 

 (Edward Fitz Gibbon), by I. F. Schumacher, published 

 by P. Salomon & Co., Hamburg, 1859, the only transla- 

 tion of the "Compleat Angler" into a foreign language. 

 Most of the copies of this German edition were destroyed 

 by fire, and the book was never reprinted. The owner 

 was over fifteen years in obtaining a copy, and in twenty- 

 five years has seen but five copies offered at auction, and 

 of these five one was the same copy appearing twice. 



The one hundreth edition of the "Compleat Angler" 

 is the Lea and Dove edition published in London in 1888. 

 It is in two large volumes, folio, and is the largest 

 Walton issued up to the present time. The editor is R. 

 B. Marston, the proprietor and editor of the "Fishing 

 Gazette of London." He has given us the most carefully 

 edited and scholarly edition of Walton thus far pub- 

 lished, and the reader will find in his notes all of interest 

 that has been discovered concerning Walton up to the 

 date of publication. Alongside of this, you will find for 

 the sake of comparison, "The Compleat Angler," pub- 

 lished by Henry Frowde in London (1900). It is known 

 as the "thumb edition," being 2 x 1% inches in size. It 

 is the smallest Walton known and also the smallest book 

 in the collection. 



In special or unique copies of Walton, the library has 

 several worthy of note, one, a copy of the large paper 

 second Bagster edition, 1815, extended or two volumes 

 by the insertion of over one hundred and seventy old 

 engravings, old portraits, colored views, sepia drawings, 

 and colored drawings. The original drawings in sepia 



