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publisher, in a note dated 81, Strand, 

 1808, says that those which were pre- 

 viously used are not copied from the 

 old plates, but re-engraved from the 

 original drawings of Mr. Wale ; that " the 

 sketch of Mr. Cotton's fishing-house, and 

 the view of Pike-pool, having been found 

 inaccurate, Mr. Samuel has favoured the 

 publisher with a finished drawing of Pike- 

 pool, and a sketch of the fishing-house 

 taken by himself on the spot in the year 

 1799. Nor are the engravings of Fishes 

 copied from the plates of any preceding 

 edition ; they are, in general, actual por- 

 traits of Fish which have been recently 

 captured." 



Portraits of Walton, Cotton, Hawkins, 

 Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Dr. Donne 

 are given ; and in the Life of Walton some 

 additional particulars are added on the 

 authority of Dr. Zouch, who in 1790 had 

 also published a Life. 



This Bagster edition was in point of 

 fact a reissue of Hawkins's with embellish- 

 ments, the new view of the fishing-house 

 being one of the best. It is an edition 

 much prized by collectors, in its octavo, 

 royal octavo, and quarto forms. One 

 collector, whose name was Higgs, had 

 a copy specially bound, the bands of 

 the book being made with wood from the 



