BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 223 



Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard ; and T. Caslon, in Station- 

 ers Court. 1775. 8. 



[ Collation : frontispiece, pp. Ixxvii, 304 ; portrait of Cotton ; 

 pp. xlviii, x, 128, viii (index), and 14 plates. 



The complete angler, or contemplative man's recre- 

 ation ; being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing: 

 in two parts ; the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton, the 

 second by Charles Cotton Esq ; with the lives of the authors, 

 and notes historical, critical, and explanatory. By Sir John 

 Hawkins, Knt. The fourth edition, with large additions. 

 London, printed for John, Francis and Charles Rivington, 

 (No. 62), etc. 1784. 8. 



[Collation: frontispiece, pp. Ixxxii, 268; portrait of Cotton, 

 pp. xxxiv, in, x (index), and 14 plates. For the memoir of Cotton 

 by Oldys is substituted a new biography by Hawkins. An account 

 of fish taken by a gentleman in Wales from 1753 to 1764 is added 

 to the Appendix, and also an " Ecloga piscatoria, a Metastasio, ut 

 dicitur."] 



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



tion: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing... 

 With the lives of the authors, and notes historical, critical and 

 explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. The fifth edition, 

 with additions. London, printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 

 (no. 62) St. Paul's Church-yard. 1791. 8. 



[ Collation : frontispiece, pp. Ixxxii, 268 ; port, of Cotton; pp. xxxiv 

 (the last misprinted xxiv), in, x (index) and 9 plates. A reprint of 

 the fourth edition, edited by John Sidney Hawkins, who " being 

 wholly unacquainted with the subject," has confined himself to 

 making such small "corrections and additions" as were found in 

 the margin of his father's copy of the last edition.] 



The complete angler, or contemplative man's recre- 

 ation ; being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing 

 With the lives of the authors, and notes historical, 

 critical and explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. The 

 fifth edition, with additions. London, printed for F. and C. 

 Rivington, G. G. J. & J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. & J. 

 Taylor, R. 'Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey. 

 1792. 8. 



[This is the 1791 edition with a new title-page, the title of the 

 second part, dated 1791, being retained. The greater portion of the 

 impression appears to have been thus treated and copies retaining 

 the original title-page are very rare and have not been hitherto 

 noticed. One is in the collection of Mr. Cooling of Derby.] 



The complete angler ; or, the contemplative man's 



recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and 

 fishing... With the lives of the authors and notes historical, 

 critical and explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. The 



