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BlBLKrnil^CA PISCATORIA. 231 



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

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

 Edited by James Rennie, a.m. Manchester: printed and pub- 

 lished by Thomas Johnson, Livesey Street. 1847- ^°- 

 [Still another.] 



The complete angler ; or, the contemplative man's 



recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle 

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

 With copious notes, for the most part original, a biblio- 

 graphical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing 

 books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and 

 a notice of Cotton and his writings by the American editor 

 [ i.e. George W. Bethune, D.D.] To which is added an appen- 

 dix including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American 

 fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, 

 eic, ever printeii. Also, a general index to the whole work. 

 New York, Wiley and Putnam. 1847. 8°. 



[Collation : Pari I, pp. vi, c.xii, 249 ; Part II, pp. 210. "Nowhere 

 else do we find united so complete a body of angling-book statistics 

 and so large an accumulation of collateral data." Chronicle of the 

 Complcat Aui^ler. The book is poorly printed and the illustrations 

 are from the wornout plates of Major's edition of 1844. Some copies 

 were in imperial octavo with duplicate impressions of the plates.] 



The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's 



recreation, by Isaac Walton. And instructions how to angle 

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

 With copious notes,... Also, a general index to the whole work. 

 New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1848. 8°. 

 [A paginary reprint of the preceding entry.] 



The complete angler ; or contemplative man's recre- 



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

 Edited by James Rennie, a.m. Liverpool, Thomas Johnson, 

 1848. 8°. 



[A stereotype-reprint of the Manchester issue of 1844, with the 

 same illustrations.] 



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 : John Johnson, 30, 

 High Holborn ; Thomas Johnson, 22, Livesey street, Man- 

 chester. 1849. ^^• 



[ Another impression of the Manchester plates.] 



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



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

 Edited by James Rennie, a.m. Manchester : printed and 

 published by Thomas Johnson, Livesey street, [ 1849 .'] 8*^. 

 [ Identical with the preceding save in title-page.] 



