the ' Compleat Angler.' 



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the authorities referred to by Walton, another of the books 

 formerly belonging to him, (and containing his autograph 

 infcriptions,) in the Cathedral Library of Salifbury — a third, 

 of thofe which have been attributed to him ; and a fourth, of 

 the works of Cotton. Thefe addenda are gathered, of courfe, 

 from various known fources, but no where elfe do we find 

 united fo complete a body of angling-book ftatiftics, and fo 

 large an accumulation of collateral data. 



Of the getting-up of the volume, we cannot fpeak with 

 praife. It is behind the time ; the type, blunt and blotty, the 

 illustrations, (a few worn-out plates, borrowed from Major, 

 1 844,) a difgrace. The intrinsic merit of the work, however, 

 is fo great, that we hope fome day to fee it taken up by a more 

 liberal publifher on our own fide of the Atlantic, and re-iflued 

 with all the honours. Two further editions appeared in 1848 

 and 1852. 



In 185 1, we have to notice an edition, in crown octavo, 



fifhing out from their dingy pages whatever tends to honour his favourite 

 author and favourite art, fo that his fpoils now number nearly five hundred 

 volumes of all fizes and dates. Pains have been taken to have, not only copies 

 of the works included by the lift, but alfo the feveral editions ; and when it is 

 of a work mentioned by Walton, an edition which the good old man himfelf 

 may have feen. Thus the collection has all the editions of Walton, Cotton 

 and Venables in exiftence, and, with but few exceptions, all the works referred 

 to by Walton, or which tend to illuftrate his favourite rambles by the Lea or the 

 Dove. Every fcrap of Walton's writing, and every compliment paid to him, 

 have been carefully gathered and garnered up, with prints and autographs, and 

 fome precious manufcripts. Nor does the department end here; but embraces 

 moft of the older and many of the modern writers on ichthyology and angling." 

 1 " With a new Introduction and Notes ; and embelliftied with eighty-five 



Caufton's Edi- 

 tion, 1851.' 



