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The Chronicle of 



Major's Firft 

 Edition, 1823. 



The new plates are practical in their bearings, but fcarcely 

 in unifon with the quaint character of the book. They are, 

 in fact, anachronifms. They did triple duty, being offered 

 for fale, in a feparate fhape,and employed to illuftratethe reprint 

 of Zouch's Life of Walton, in 1823, and later. They were 

 accompanied by portraits of Walton and Cotton, in mezzotint, 

 the former from Houfman, the latter from Sir Peter Lely. 



Gofden was a collector, as well as a trader ; and there are 

 few angling libraries, at the prefent day, that do not poffefs 

 works adorned with one or other of his book-plates, and fome- 

 times enriched, befides, with his very ungrammatical anno- 

 tations. 



The following year muft be marked with a white ftone, as 

 a turning point in the fortunes of the c Compleat Angler.' 



The work had held a high place, hitherto, in the efteem of 

 the judicious and difcerning, but was deftined, through the 

 publication, in 1 8 23, of Major's firft edition, to attain to a wider 



1 " The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton : Exten- 

 fively embellifhed with Engravings on Copper and Wood from original Paint- 

 ings and Drawings, by firft-rate Artilts. To which are added, an Introductory 

 ElTay ; the Linnasan Arrangement of the various River-Fifh delineated in the 

 Work; and Illuftrative Notes. London: John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining 

 Serjeants'-Inn. mdcccxxiii." 



60 pages preliminary ; 411 pages. opiates, and jy woodcuts. Price 

 18/., or large paper, 1/. 12s. 



Taylieure, 244, 1/. is., large paper. Valentine, 246, ioj. Cotton, 173-4, 

 8j\, and 2/. 14/., large paper. Prince, 135, 1/. 8/. Haflewood, duplicate 

 proofs, 3/. 15/. Stace, 90, 1/. 4/. Lowndes, 725, lgs. Walfh, 80, \1. 12s., 

 large paper. Higgs, 54, 2/. lgs. Brockett, 2/. gs. Utterfon, with Zouch's 

 Life of Walton, 2/. js. 



