218 Sir Harris Nicolas. 



could say all his efforts to obtain a copy 

 had proved abortive. 



Among the editions I have of Walton, 

 one I prize greatly is the smallest of all, 

 a little 3 2 mo Pickering's first edition in 

 1825. This wee volume, little more than 

 three inches long, two wide, and half 

 an inch thick, contains the whole of 

 Walton and Cotton, uncumbered by 

 notes. The type is small, but the whole 

 goes into a watch-pocket, and my copy 

 has travelled with me many thousands 

 of miles. 



But Pickering is not represented alone 

 by the smallest Walton in existence. He 

 gave us also in some respects the finest 

 and most valuable, that of 1836 the 

 " result of seven years' continuous labour 

 and of much patient research and fostering 

 care on the part of its publisher." This 

 edition is in two imperial 8vo volumes. 

 The editor was Sir Harris Nicolas, the 

 most indefatigable and careful editor that 

 Walton ever had. What Sir Harris 

 Nicolas has said leaves, as Mr. Westwood 

 notes, " little in the way of data for any 

 future gleaner in the same scanty field. " 

 "The illustrators are Stothard and In- 

 skipp, the former being charged with 

 the scenic plates and the views of the 

 localities, and the latter, principally, with 



