the c Compleat Angler. 



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practice of the fport as expounded more fully in his " Hand- 

 Bookof Angling." This edition, on practical, working grounds, 

 deferves commendation. It is adorned with fome fketchy 

 woodcuts and plates of fim and flies. A frefh iflue was called 

 for in 1854, and a third publifhed by MefTrs. Routledge and 

 Co. in 1859. The two latter ifTues, however, are but 

 paginary reprints. 



Turning the various verfions over in his mind, Mr. Edward 

 J^e, in 1856, confidered himfelf called upon to add yet 

 another to the number, and into this he c moots,' to ufe a 

 carter's phrafe, a heap of his own notes, on the top of the 

 already vaft accumulation. At this ftage of the proceeding 

 we have to ftand tip-toe to fee Walton at all. Mr. Je/Xe is 

 known as a man of amiable manners, fome knowledge of 

 natural hiftory, and a very elaftic credulity, and we fay grace 

 over his notes . . . but partake not. 



Mr. Bohn, on the other hand, as publifher of the work, 



JefTe 's Edition, 

 1856. 1 



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

 of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. With Lives of the Authors, and 

 variorum Notes, hiftorical and practical. Edited by Edward JefTe, Efq. 

 To which are added, papers on Fifhing Tackle, Fifhing Stations, &c. By 

 Henry G. Bohn. London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 



MDCCCLVI." 



496 pages; 29 pages preliminary. Price Js. 6J. with the extra fteel en- 

 gravings, and 5/. without. Poft 8vo. According to Bohn's Lowndes (1864) 

 the copies with extra illuflrations were only ifTued in 1861. 



The Biographies are a refacimento of thofe by Hawkins. 



We may mention here that the reprint of the "Bibliographer's Manual" 

 juft cited, regifters but forty-two editions of the ' Compleat Angler,' inltead of 

 fifty-three. 



