the ' Compleat Angler.' 



35 



The edition of 1797 is again a paginary reprint, the en- 

 gravings (with the exception of the tackle plates) being now 

 fupprefled altogether. The renewed afTurance of better type 

 and paper becomes, this time, a fib of the firft magnitude. Very 

 fhabby and feedy fpecimens, in fact, are thefe laft of the direct 

 Hawkins feries, which they clofe unworthily. The circum- 

 stance of Mr. John Sidney being " wholly unacquainted with 

 the fubject," and therefore as wholly devoid of zeal and 

 enthufiafm, accounts, we fuppofe, in fome degree, for their 

 threadbare and declining condition. 



But the age is declining alfo, and a new era is about to 

 dawn. Prefently, we crofs the threfhold of the nineteenth 

 century, and have prefentiments of better and grander things. 



The better come firft, in the fhape of a handfome octavo 



Bagfter's Firft 

 Edition, 1808. ' 



1 The title the .fame as in the edition of 1784. " London: Printed for 

 Samuel Bagfter, in the Strand. 1808." 



512 pages. Frontifpiece and 14 plates; 17 plates of fifli. 



In the half-title is a woodcut vignette (an angler), and under it, " The 

 Complete Angler. The Seventh Edition. With Improvements and Additions, 

 both of Matter and Plates." 



Haflewood, in the " Cenfura Literaria," fpeaks of this edition as having 

 been difclaimed by Mr. J. S. Hawkins, and refers to the " Gent. Mag.," 

 January 7, 1809, p. 6. 



Valentine, 242, 4to., \l. 6s, Higgs, 49, with extra illuftrations, 6$l. 

 Lowndes, 722, 8/. 6d. Taylieure, 243, 4/. 6d. Haworth, 916, 1/. Hafle- 

 wood, 4to., with MSS. and additional illuftrations, 5/. js. 6d. Bindley, 

 1/. 8/., large paper. Prince, 7/., 4to., with extra illuftrations. Drury, 19;. 

 Brockett, 1/. 10s. Stowe, 1/. \s., large paper. Utterfon, 2/. 5/. extra illuf- 

 trations. Strettell, 7/. zs. 6J., 4to., with proofs of the illuftrations of the edition 

 of 181 5 inferred. Baker, 4/. \s., with duplicate fet of plates. 



