The Chronicle of 



A fmall fquare duodecimo, clad in a modeft overcoat of 

 brown calf — fuch were the form and fafhion of the book as it 

 firft appeared. Not a noticeable book, amongft others, by 

 any means, and yet fuperior to moft of its clafs in point of 

 adornment, by virtue of thofe plates of fifh, which the author 

 thought it juft to endorfe with his approval, 1 and which are, 

 indeed, very daintily and delicately handled. 



There is no name attached to thefe engravings, but they are 

 afcribed, with a great mow of probability, to the noted French 

 engraver, Pierre Lombart, at that time refident in this country, 

 and whofe talent was moftly devoted to book illustration. Sir 

 Harris Nicolas, though giving the preference to Lombart, 

 fuggefts, at the fame time, as poffible candidates for the 

 honour, Faithorne or Vaughan. 2 



The belief, current formerly, that they were wrought on 



out of an old Fifh Book," on the origin of which no light has hitherto been 

 thrown. 



John Hockenhull, on the other hand, in his " Pleafant Hexameter Verfes 

 in Praife of Mr. Barker's Book of Angling," afks, — 



" Markham, Ward, Lawfon, dare you with Barker now compare?" 



Can any modern CEdipus inform us who was Ward, and what his right to be 

 affociated with Markham and Lavvfon? 



> " And let me adde this, that he that likes not thedifcourfe mould like the 

 pictures of the Trout and other fifh, which I may commend, becaufe they con- 

 cern not myfelf." — " To the Reader of this Difcourfe." Firft Edition. 



2 For biographical and other particulars refpefting thefe artifts, fee Bryan's 

 " Dictionary of Painters and Engravers," Bohn, 1858. 



Some mention of Lombart occurs alfo in Evelyn's " Sculptura, or the 

 Hiftory and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper," 1662. 



