214 Gosden' s Reprints. 



door of Cotton's fishing-house, taken off 

 by Higgs near the lock, "where he was 

 sure old Izaak's hand must have touched 

 it." This copy afterwards sold for 6$. 

 Walton's coffin would not be safe from 

 some of his " admirers." 



The second Bagster-Hawkins edition 

 appeared in 1815, with some notes by 

 Sir Henry Ellis, of the British Museum, 

 and new plates of fish. This edition was 

 a great favourite with Mr. Westwood, 

 being the first in which he read Walton. 

 It was printed by R. Watts, of Broxbourne, 

 on the River Lea, Herts. 



In 1822 Thomas Gosden reprinted 

 Hawkins's edition with a new set of plates, 

 which " did triple duty, they being offered 

 for sale in a separate shape, and employed 

 to illustrate the reprint of Zouch's Life of 

 Walton, published by Gosden in 1823, 

 and subsequently." Mr. Westwood, I 

 think, scarcely does justice to the illustra- 

 tions in Gosden's edition. There is one of 

 a group of fish from an original picture by 

 Elmer " in the possession of the publisher," 

 in which is one of the best illustrations of 

 a trout ever published. The engravings 

 of the fishing-house, of Beresford Hall, 

 of Walton's house in Fleet Street, etc., 

 are also excellent, and are certainly not 

 " anachronisms," if the same can be said 



