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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 pub- 

 ilshed by Thomas Johnson, Livesey Street. 1847. 8. 

 [ 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, 

 etc.) ever printed. Also, a general index to the whole work. 

 New York, Wiley and Putnam. 1847. 8. 



[Collation : Part I, pp. vi, cxii, 249 ; Part II, pp. 210. "Nowhere 

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

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

 Compleat Angler. 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. 8. 



[ 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.] 



