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editions of Walton which bear the imprint 

 of American publishers, chiefly, of course, 

 reprints of English editions or editions 

 printed in England. The most beautiful 

 edition we have had from America was 

 one published in 1889 in two octavo 

 volumes by Little, Brown, & Co., of Boston 

 (London, Macmillan & Co.), with a small 

 large-paper edition, of which I was glad 

 to secure a copy, both because of the fact 

 that it contains an " Introduction," ex- 

 tending to over fifty pages, by no less a 

 writer than Mr. James Russell Lowell, and 

 for the etchings by Harlow, which have 

 been added to the illustrations from 

 Major's edition of 1844, with some fish 

 by Inskipp from the great Pickering 

 edition of 1836. I must refer to Mr. 

 Lowell's "Introduction "in another chapter. 

 Before closing these brief notes about 

 some of the more prominent of the many 

 editions of Walton, I must put in a word 

 of welcome for yet another. I have re- 

 ceived from Messrs. Samuel Bagster &: 

 Sons, Limited, the prospectus of an edition 

 de luxe of The Compleat Angler to be pub- 

 lished shortly, " Edited, with Notes from 

 a Naturalist's Point of View," by Mr. J. E. 

 Harting, Librarian to the Linnsean Society 

 of London, editor of The Zoologist^ and 

 author of many delightful works about 



