CHAPTER XII. 



Some Editions of The Complcat Angler Sub- 

 sequent to the Fifth An Interval of over 

 Seventy Years Moses Browne's Reprints, 

 1750, 1759, and 1772 John Hawkins's Edi- 

 tions, 1760 to 1784 The Bagster Edition, 

 1808 Gosden's Edition, 1822 John Major's 

 Editions One "Higgs" has a Copy Bound 

 in Wood which he Cut from Cotton's Fishing- 

 House Some Notes on Major's Editions 

 How Major Courted Immortality Pickering's 

 32mo, His Fine Edition of 1836, the Result 

 of Seven Years' Labour Sir Harris Nicolas 

 Walton's Best Editor Some Account of 

 Dr. Bethune's Edition "Ephemera's" Edi- 

 tions A German Edition of Walton Some 

 other Editions, and a Welcome for a New 

 One by Bagster. 



SOME EDITIONS OF "THE COMPLEAT 

 ANGLER" SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIFTH. 



jO far, in these random casts 

 among the pages of Walton and 

 Cotton, I have had before me 

 K copies printed in their time and 

 for them, the very pages of which might 

 have been seen by them. Indeed, as my 

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