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The Chronicle of 



' Ephemera's* 

 Editions, 1853, 

 1854, and 

 1859.' 



publifhed by Henry Kent Caufton, who, on the ftrength of 

 his defcent from the Richard and Henry Caufton figuring 

 as printers and publishers of Mofes Browne's revival (1772), 

 finds it incumbent on him to attempt a quixotic rehabilitation 

 of Browne's editing, and even to perpetuate fome of his 

 <c expurgations," and all his notes. 



In a diftracting-looking, but not ill-written " Introduction," 

 he gives a fummary of Walton's career, and examines the 

 various and conflicting evidence brought to bear on the fubject, 

 dealing about him the while fome heavy blows, efpecially in 

 the direction of genealogical editors. 



He perpetuates, alfo, we are forry to fay, Wale's feries of 

 drawings borrowed from Major, and which in this, their laft 

 ftage of evaporation, look ghaftly and impalpable as ghofts at 

 noon-day. Shabby in its externals, this book feems to have 

 enjoyed but a neglected exiftence and has already paffed out 

 of fight. 



Two years later MefTrs. Ingram and Cooke prefent us, in 

 their cc Uluftrated Library," with the l Complete Angler,' 

 edited by c Ephemera' (Fitzgibbon), of * Bell's Life,' who 

 grafts on it, in notes and appendices, his own fyftem of the 



Engravings on Copper and Wood. London : Henry Kent Caufton. mdcccli." 

 418 pages; 68 pages preliminary. 



1 " New Edition. Edited by ' Ephemera,' of ' Bell's Life in London.' 

 London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co. mdcccliii." 317 pages. 



Edit. 1854. "Second Edition. London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford 

 Houfe, Strand." 



Edit. 1859. "London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, Farringdon 

 Street. New York : 56, Walker Street." 



