JOHN SCOTT l6l 



sold by auction, about the year 1825, to J. Dent, 

 Esq., for 120 guineas, contained upwards of 800 

 drawings, etchings, engravings, &c., many of which 

 were by Scott. 



Another edition of Walton and Cotton's Compleat 

 Angiei' (Samuel Bagsters, London, 1803, on the 

 largest paper), is very copiously and beautifully 

 illustrated, containing 254 plates and drawings. 

 Several of the plates "proof" are by Scott. The 

 binding, by Thomas Gosden, is probably the finest 

 example of his art existing, and a MS. note by 

 his hand on the fly leaf states that " the bands of 

 the book are made out of the wood which belonged 

 to Cotton's Fishing House." This book is now in 

 the Elsenham Hall Library. 



Silver Buttons, published by J. H. Burn, London, 

 1 82 1, display unique application of the art of the 

 engraver. Thomas Gosden commissioned Abraham 

 Cooper, R.A., to draw a series of fourteen designs 

 illustrative of British field sports ; these were en- 

 graved by Scott on a silver plate, from which the 

 buttons were then cut. These Silver Buttons were 

 sold for shooting coats, and there is in the Elsen- 

 ham collection a case containing the set of fourteen. 



J. H. Burn published the designs on India paper 

 with a quotation under each small plate from 

 Bewick or Daniel. 



The Chase, by William Somerville, published by 



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