the c Compleat Angler.' 



Alfo, Pickering's firft edition, in 32mo., 1825. With a 

 frontifpiece by Stothard, and an engraved title (both of which 

 were enlarged for the edition of 1836), and abridged bio- 

 graphies. 



This was followed by Pickering's fecond edition, 1826, 

 241110., with a portrait of Walton (dated 1827) and a vignette 

 in the title-page (the milkmaid fcene), alfo afterwards enlarged 

 for the edition of 1836. 



In the laft three editions, the annotation is fupprefTed. 



In 1833, we have ProfefTor Rennie's firft edition (i2mo.), 

 which, though publifhed under cover of a fcientific name, is, 

 perhaps, the leaft refpectable of the entire feries. Flippancy 

 and trafhinefs characlerife moft of the notes that bear the 

 editor's fign-manual. The reft of the work is a reprint of 

 Hawkins, with a catch-penny portrait, and fome coarfe wood- 

 cuts of fifh added. 



Owing, we prefume, to the low price of the book, it has 



and Engravings of the River-fifh defcribed in the work. London : Printed 

 for William Cole, 10, Newgate Street." 314 pages, and 20 preliminary. 



1 " The Complete Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Two 

 Parts. The Firft by Izaak Walton, The Second by Charles Cotton. London : 

 William Pickering, mdcccxxv." 318 pages, and 16 pages preliminary. 



2 Tide as in the foregoing. " London : William Pickering, mdcccxxvi." 

 330 pages, 25 preliminary. 



3 Firft part of the title the fame as in the edition of 1661. "With Lives 

 and Notes. By Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James Rennie, A.M., 

 ProfefTor of Zoology, King's College, London. Edinburgh : Publifhed, for the 

 Proprietors, by W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh ; W. Orr, London ; and 

 W. Curry, Jun. and Co., Dublin, mdcccxxxiii." 328 pages. 



* Edit. 1834, " Publifhed by Allan Bell and Co., and Simpkin and Mar- 



49 



Pickering's 

 Firft Edition, 

 1825.' 



Pickering's 

 Second Edition, 

 1826. 2 



Rennie's Firft 

 Edition, 1833 3 



Rennie's feven 

 further reprints, 

 1834, 1835, 

 18,6, 1847, 

 1849, 1851, 

 and 1857. * 



