140 Walton's Illustrations. 



unknown ; but Pierre Lombart, a noted 

 Frenchman then resident in this country, 

 and engaged in illustrating books, and 

 also Faithorne and Vaughan, are possible 

 candidates for the honour. We know 

 that the last mentioned was employed by 

 Harriot on other work. These plates, 

 which are said, with little probability, to 

 have been of silver, served for the first 

 four editions, and were re-engraved in 

 reverse, by a less artistic hand, for the 

 fifth edition, a circumstance which has 

 escaped notice." 



I see that Sir John Hawkins, in his 

 fourth edition of the Angler, has this note 

 about the illustrations : 



"Walton, in the year 1653, published, 

 in a very elegant manner, his Compleat 

 Angler ', or Contemplative Man's Recrea- 

 tion^ in small duodecimo, adorned with 

 exquisite cuts of most of the fish men- 

 tioned in it. The artist who engraved 

 them has been so modest as to conceal 

 his name; but there is great reason to 

 suppose they are the work of Lombart, 

 who is mentioned in the Sculptura of 

 Mr. Evelyn ; and also that the plates were 

 of steel." 



Mr. Westwood, usually so extremely 

 careful, had evidently overlooked this later 

 account of Walton's book by Hawkins, 



