BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 229 



points... Again we have an editor who is no angler, a deficiency 

 that is painfully felt as we peruse these dryly written, matter-of-fact, 

 unsympathetic pages... This fine book, in a word, is over-dressed. 

 It is Maudlin, the milkmaid, tricked out in a gown of brocade, with 

 a mantle of cloth of gold... Nevertheless as this monument has 

 been reared, let us accept it for what it is one of the handsomest 

 publications of modern times, an ornament to the Angler's Library, 

 unique of its kind, and perhaps destined to remain so." Chronicle of 

 the Compleat Angler, pp. 50-4.] 



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

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

 ing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With lives and 

 notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James 

 Rennie, A.M. London, Allan Bell and Co. 1836. 8. 

 [A paginary reprint of the 1833 edition.] 



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

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

 Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Edinburgh, [printed]: Eraser 

 and Co.; London, H. Washbourne, 1836. 8. 

 [ Another impression of the same.] 



The complete angler. By Jzaak Walton and Charles 



Cotton. 2 vol. London, Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet-street ; J. 

 Menzies, Edinburgh ; T. Wardle, Philadelphia. 1837. 24. 

 [Collation: vol. I, frontispiece, pp. xi. 152; vol. II, frontispiece, 



pp. iv, 149. An edition without notes and forming a volume of 



" Tilt's miniature classical library."] 



The complete angler ; or, the contemplative man's 



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

 fishing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With notes, 

 biographical and explanatory, and the lives of the authors. 

 London, L. A. Lewis, 125, Fleet-street, 1839. 8. 



[Collation : pp. xxvi, Ixxii, 396. A reprint of Major's edition, the 

 "Introductory essay" being omitted and the biographies of Walton 

 and Cotton by Hawkins replaced. It contains 76 woodcuts and 15 

 copper plates.] 



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

 ation. By Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Embellished 

 with portraits of the authors, and engravings of the river-fish 

 described in the work. London, I. J. Chidley. 1841. 8. 



[Collation : pp. xx, 314, 2 portraits. This is Cole's edition, with 

 fresh title-page. The portrait of Walton bears the name of 

 "W. Cole," while Cotton's is inscribed with that of "Hodgson and 

 Co."] 



The complete angler ; or, contemplative man's 



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

 fishing. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With notes, 



