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artists. To which are added, an introductory essay ; the 

 Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish dehneated in 

 the work ; and illustrative notes. Third edition. London, 

 J. Major, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Printed by 

 W. Nicol, 51, Pall Mall. 1835. 8°. 



[A paginary reprint of Major's second edition (1824), with the 

 77 woodcuts and 15 copper- plates, a portrait of Dr. Thomas Whar- 

 ton being, on this occasion, added. The plates are much the worse 

 for wear.] 



; The complete angler ; or, contemplative man's recre- 

 ation :...With lives and notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. 

 Edited by James Rennie, a.m. London : Thomas Tegg and 

 Son, Cheapside ; R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow ; Tegg, Wise 

 and Co., Dublin. 1835. 8°. 



A paginary reprint of the edition of 1833 with the same illus- 

 trations.] 



The complete angler or the contemplative man's 



recreation : being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and 

 fishing written by Izaak Walton and instructions how to angle 

 for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton. 

 With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, 

 K.c.M.G. 2 vol. London. William Pickering. 1836. 8°. 



[ Collation : vol. I, portrait, pp. xvi, ccxii, ii ; portrait ; engraved 

 frontispiece (by Stothard); pp. 129 ; 130 blank. Vol. II, pp.iv. 131- 

 436, x.xxii (inde.x) and plates. Imperial octavo. Originally issued in 

 numbers commencing in 1835 at six guineas, or, with impressions of 

 the plates on India paper, at ten guineas. This superb edition 

 contains the variations of all the first five editions, voluminous 

 notes, with original and elaborate memoirs of Walton and Cotton, 

 presenting many new facts. All the illustrations, with the e.xception 

 of Cotton's Fishing House which is on wood, are engraved on 

 copper or steel. They were also issued separately, in small folio 

 form, as proofs on India paper. 



''The illustrators are Stothard and Inskipp, the former being 

 charged with the scenic plates and the views of the localities, and 

 the latter, principall}-, with the fish. The engravers are Fox, Cooke, 

 Richardson and other eminent hands... The sentiment inspired by 

 a cursory survey of [these volumes] is, no doubt, one of pleasure 

 and admiration; but the after and more prenmnent impression 

 results, we are pained to confess, in a sense of comparative failure. 

 The book, sooth to say, is a pompous book, and with much that is 

 overdone in it. We seek for our modest king-cups and pimpernels, 

 and find these buried beneath a heap of learned and heterogeneous 

 lumber. We turn the leaves over with a feeling of disproportion, 

 a perception of incongruity and unfitness. Inskipp's fish, indeed, 

 have all the force and freshness of nature, and rejoice the eye ; but 

 Stothard's plates seem to us weak and silly, insignificant, as regards 

 the size of the work in which the}' figure, and unworthy, alike, both 

 of it and the artist... He was no angler, besides, and the fact 

 betrays itself, as might be e.xpected, in many minute but conclusive 



