224 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



sixth edition, with additions. London : printed for F. & C. 

 Rivington, G. G. & j. Robinson, J. & J. Taylor, R. Faulder, 

 W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, E. Jefferey, and T. N. Longman, 



1797- 8. 



[ Collation : frontispiece, pp. viii, Ixxvi, 263 ; portrait of Cotton ; 

 pp. xxxii, in, x (index) and 3 plates of tackle. 50 copies are said to 

 be on finer paper. The Hawkins series, greatly deteriorated in the 

 edition of 1791, closes with this shabby and threadbare volume.] 



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, supplementary and explanatory ; 

 by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. London : printed for Samuel 

 Bagster, in the Strand. 1808. 8. & 4. 



[Collation : half-title: ("The complete angler. The seventh 

 edition. With improvements and additions, both of matter and 

 plates," with woodcut of angler above), frontispiece, title, pp. 512 

 and 14 plates. Wale's drawings have been re-engraved by Audi net, 

 who also executed the seventeen very excellent engravings of fish 

 on copper which are found among the letter-press. New views of 

 "Pike pool" and of Cotton's "Fishing house" "taken by Mr. 

 Samuel," are among the illustrations. The new editor ( Bagster 

 himself, we believe) has revised and made some additions to the 

 notes of Hawkins. The edition was printed in three sizes : demy 

 octavo, royal octavo and quarto, which last were published at five 

 guineas. These are rare, the greater part having perished in the fire 

 at Bagster's warehouse, with the stock of this impression. At 

 Higgs's sale a copy illustrated with above 270 prints and drawings 

 from rare portraits, proof impressions of plates of fish, &c., sold for 

 63. It was bound by Gosden, and the bands of the book made of 

 wood from the door of Cotton's fishing-house, taken off near the 

 lock, where it is to be supposed, Isaac's hand must have touched it.] 



The compleat angler, by Isaac Walton. London. 



Printed for S. Bagster, in the Strand. 1810. 8. 



[ Collation : pp. xviii, 246. This is a reprint of Walton's first 

 edition, but scarcely to be called a facsimile. A portrait of Walton, 

 engraved by Scott from the picture by Housman, is prefixed. The 

 fish were engraved on silver, agreeably with the common credence 

 on this subject. The stock of this edition shared the fate of the 

 previous edition and was partly consumed in the fire.] 



The complete angler, or contemplative man's recre- 



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

 In two parts... With the lives of the authors : and notes his- 

 torical, supplementary and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, 

 Knt. and the present editor. London : printed for Samuel 

 Bagster, in the Strand, by R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the 

 river Lea, Herts. 1815. 8. 



[Collation : portrait; facsimile (of original) title; pp. 514, xx 



