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The Chronicle of 



Hawkins' Firft 

 Edition, 1760. ' 



dull and unpleafant ; at the fame time that it will anfwer the 

 double purpofe that fuch who want more immediately to 

 perufe the aforefaid Directions, &c., may find them more 

 readily by thefe marks and follow them (as in a chain) through 

 the feveral pages." 



The above is extracted from the " Editor's Preface,'' which, 

 for this edition, had been re-written, giving a few more details 

 of Walton's career, but perpetuating, as we have already mown, 

 the old error touching his relationfhip with Cotton. 



Some new engravings (three in number) are alfo added to 

 this reprint, from the fame hand, that of H. Burgh. 



Browne's fpurious revival was now to be fucceeded and fuper- 



1 " The Complete Angler : Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being 

 a Difcourfe on Rivers, Fifh-Ponds, Fifh, and Fiming. In Two Parts. The 

 Firft written by Mr. Izaak Walton, The Second by Charles Cotton, Efq. ; 

 To which are now prefixed, The Lives of the Authors. Illuftrated with 

 Cuts of the feveral Kinds of River-Fifh, and of the Implements ufed in Angling, 

 Views of the principal Scenes defcribed in the Book. And Notes Hiftorical, 

 Critical, and Explanatory. 



London : Printed only for Thomas Hope, at the Bible and Anchor, oppo- 

 fite the North-gate of the Royal Exchange, Tbreadneedle Streets and fold by 

 him and Sackville Parker, at Oxfords Richard Matthews, at Cambridge, and 

 Samuel Trimmer, at Derby. 1760." 



Firft Part, 78 pages preliminary ; 304 pages. Second Part, 58 pages pre- 

 liminary; 136 pages, including Index. Frontifpiece, and 12 feparate Illuf- 

 trations, including 3 plates of tackle ; alfo engravings of fifh. 



Haworth, 912, 2/. Ms. Higgs, 46, 1/. 15/. Valentine, 237, 1/. 4;. 

 Cotton, 168, 1/. 7/. Strawberry Hill, in old red morocco, 15/. Taylieure, 

 238, 17s. Milner, 159, 2/. 14/. Haflewood, 3/. 3/. Walfh, 71, 12s. 

 Bindley, \l. ijs. White Knights, 1/. 3/. Skettell, 2/. Stanley, 3/. 5/. 

 Tovvneley, 3/. 15/. Utterfon, 1/. 5/. Crawford, 1/. 10/. 



