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The Chronicle of 



Hawkins' Se- 

 cond Edition, 

 1766.' 



Mofes Browne's 

 Third Edition, 

 1772. 



The biography of Walton extends to fifty- fix pages, and 

 that of Cotton, by W. 0[ldys], to forty-eight. The annota- 

 tion is copious, and has been, for the moil part, retained in 

 fubfequent reprints. 



Hawkins' fecond edition, in 1766, was but a paginary 

 reprint of the firfr., and requires, therefore, no fpecial defcrip- 

 tion here. 



In proof that Browne's verfion had not fallen into abfolute 

 disfavour, a third and laft edition was produced in 1772, 

 " greatly improved in a number of places above any of the 

 preceding ones, by the addition of twenty pages and of feveral 

 ufeful notes of Directions for the Sport. The Songs," he 

 adds, " that are fimple and natural, wrote with humour 

 and character, I have endeavoured to make ftill more agreeable 

 by indulging myfelf in an inclination I found of fetting each 

 to mufic, as they now for the firfr. time appear, and are my 



1 " London : Printed for J. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. PauPs 

 Cburcb-yard ,• T. Caflon, in Stationers Court j and R. Withy, in Combill. 



MDCCLXVI." 



Milner, finely bound, 160, 5/. 15/. 6d. Higgs, 48, \l. $s. Valentine, 

 238, Ss. 6d. Pickering, 309, 1/. is. Haflewood, additional illuftrations, 

 1/. \\s. 6d. Walfh, 73, 1/. 13/. White Knights, 4364, 18/. Bindley, 

 pt. iii., 1936, 9-r. 



2 " The Eighth Edition, with the Addition of all the Songs fet to Mufic. 

 London : Printed and Sold by Richard and Henry Caufton (Succefiors to the 

 late Mr. Henry Kent), at the Printing Office, No. 21, Fincb-Lane, near the 

 Royal Exchange, mdcclxxii." 



24 pages preliminary; 372 pages, including Index. 



Haworth, 909, 6s. ; and 911, 13s. Valentine, 236, 5/. 6d. Higgs, 45, 

 2.1. y. Bindley, gs. White Knights, 15/. Edwards, 6s. 6d. 



