the ' Compleat Angler.' 



51 



Here we may flip in, at a venture, an anonymous edition, 

 with a reduced fac-rimile, cut in wood, for fole title, and 

 without date, printer's or publifher's name. 



In 1836, we do obeifance to Pickering's third edition, in 

 which Walton's fimple work puts on the purple of an un- 

 accuftomed fovereignty, and is fcarcely to be recognifed in its 

 new and fplendid inveftiture. The refult of feven years' con- 

 tinuous labour, and of much patient refearch and foftering care 

 on the part of its publisher, this edition requires, more than 

 moil, our mature and critical confederation. 



It is in two tall volumes, the form being imperial octavo. 

 Paper and type, as might be expected from a publifher pre- 

 eminent for the beauty of the books iffued by him, are both 

 admirable in their kind, and the title-page, as Mr. H. R. 

 Francis rightly remarks, is of a perfection that might " trouble 

 the ghofts of the Aldi." 



The illuftrators are Stothard and Infkipp, the former being 

 charged with the fcenic plates and the views of the localities, 



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

 a Difcourfe of Rivers, Fifti-Ponds, Fifh, and Fifhing, written by Izaak Walton ; 

 and Inftruttions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear dream, by 

 Charles Cotton. With original Memoirs and Notes, by Sir Harris Nicolas, 

 K.C.M.G. (Underneath, an adaptation of the Aldine mark, with "Aldi 

 Difcip. Anglvs.") London: William Pickering, 1836." 



214 pages preliminary; body of the work, 436 pages. 61 illuftrations. 



Prince, 5/. 18/., and with 580 ancient and modern portraits, &c, 24/. 10s. 

 Lowndes, 3/. 19s. Wallh, additional illuftrations, 14/. 10s. Sotheby, 5/. icv. 

 Harwood, 5/, js. 6d. Bernal, with extra portraits and proof plates from 

 Major's and Bagfter's Editions, and from other works on Angling, 3 vols, 

 elephant iize, morocco, 40/. Utterfon, extra illuftrations, 14/. 



Anonymous 

 Edit. n. d. ( circa 

 1836;. 



Pickering's 

 Third Edition, 

 1836.' 



