345 39 The same. HAWKINS' FIFTH EDITION, with additions. Post 8vo, morocco extra. This edition is revised by John Sidney Hawkins, son of Sir John Hawkins, who states in his advertisement that he had found on the margins of a copy of the fourth edition, "corrections and additions by the last editor, which, though not many, have been all made use of on this occasion, from a wish that the book might receive the advantage of his last corrections." 346 The same. HAWKINS' SIXTH EDITION. Post 8vo, morocco extra. "A paginary reprint of the preceding, the engravings (with the exception of the tackle-plates) being suppressed altogether."-T. W. THE ABOVE SIX LOTS, FORMING A FULL SET OF THE DIRECT HAWKINS' SERIES, 6 vols. post 8vo, UNIFORMLY BOUND IN FULL GREEN LEVANT MOROCCO, CRUSHED AND POLISHED, FULL GILT SIDES, BACKS, BROAD INSIDE BORDERS, AND GILT LEAVES, by BOSQUET. ALL CHOICE PICKED COPIES. Together, $150. "Modern commentators have been slow to acknowledge the value of Hawkins' editorial services They pooh-pooh his Piscatorship, carp and cavil at his science, and put on double spectacles to discover his enthusiasm, and fail. That he had weak points, and that these were of them, we do not deny; but as a pioneer in his department he has, we repeat, a claim to our regard and recognition, which it would be ungracious to repudiate."-Chronicle of the Compleat Angler. 347 WALTON & COTTON. The COMPLEAT ANGLER, &c. (Title same as in the 348 349 edition of 1784.) BAGSTER'S FIRST EDITION (and 7th of Hawkins). London, Bagster, 1808. FINE COPY, rare in this size. "This edition is Hawkins redivivus as regards the notes and biographies, but the new editor (Bagster himself, we believe) revised and made some addition to the former. The engravings are still those of Ryland and Wale, but executed afresh from the original drawings by Audinet and in very creditable style. The plates of Fish are finely finished and faithful, and are the best associated, hitherto, with the work."-T. W. 350 A large portion of the edition was destroyed by fire in Bagster's warehouse. The same. BAGSTER'S SECOND EDITION (8th Hawkins). Title same as the preceding. 8vo, crimped maroon morocco extra, gilt leaves, $7.50. London, 1815. Printed for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Hert., 1815. 351 The same, LARGE PAPER, interleaved throughout. Thick roy. 8vo, full russia extra, full gilt, inside borders, gilt edges, Monogram of Mr. Westwood on the sides, &c., $15.00. London, 1815. CHOICE COPY, scarce. "The editorship on this occasion was confided to Mr. Henry Ellis, of the British Museum, and compiler of the first list of angling-books. His additions are mainly Bibliographical and Biographical. A fresh series of plates of fish was given with this reprint, and are superior to those of 1808."-T. W. 352 WALTON and COTTON. COMPLEAT ANGLER, &c. BAGSTER'S FACSIMILE RESq. 12mo (8vo), russia, London, Bagster, 1810. PRINT of THE ORIGINAL EDITION of 1653. FINE COPY, scarce; a large portion of the edition having been destroyed by fire. 353 WALTON and COTTON. COMPLEAT ANGLER, &c. GOSDEN'S EDITION. (Title same as the 4th edition of Hawkins.) Post 8vo, hf. mor., portraits and plates, &c., neat. $5.00. London, printed for James Smith, 1822. "This edition was by Gosden, the sporting bookseller; it includes Hawkins' notes and biographies, and no other innovations than a new set of plates (15 in number, Lowndes states erroneously, 21) and a preface, not written, we presume, by Gosden himself, who, though an enthusiastic lover of angling literature, was possessed of little education." Cotton, £25; Milner, £2/16; Grace, £2/12/5d; Lowndes, £2 /14. 354 WALTON & COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton; extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original Paintings and Drawings by first-rate artists. To which are added an introductory essay; the Linnæan arrangement of the various river-fish delineated in the work; and illustrative notes. 8vo, crimson morocco extra. London, John Major, 1823. MAJOR'S FIRST EDITION on LARGE PAPER, brilliant India proof impressions of the plates; the margins very neatly ruled with red lines. * RARE, on large paper. "Dazzled as our eyes are with the splendor of our recent typographical successes, we may wonder at the amount of admiration excited forty years ago by this pretty book, which was looked upon as a marvel of its kind, pointed out as such on the shelves of libraries, or passed from hand to hand, amidst the encomiums of delighted connoisseurs. The old drawings by Wale having been engraved for it in more finished style by Cook & Pye, the wood cuts of fish skilfully executed, and the editing performed by a practised and competent hand (Mr. R. Thomson, author of the Chronicles of London Bridge, 1827)".-T. W. 355 The same. MAJOR'S SECOND EDITION. Title same as in the foregoing (with some additional notes). 8vo, crimson morocco extra. London, 1824. LARGE PAPER, INDIA-PROOF PLATES, the margins ruled with red lines. Bohn's Lowndes says: "The old plates, 'rebit,' but a difference of size, and other variations, negative this statement. The new ones were engraved by W. R. Smith."-T. W. 356 MAJOR'S THIRD EDITION. See lot No. 368. The same. MAJOR'S FOURTH EDITION. New series of plates by Absolon. 8vo, crimson morocco extra. LARGE PAPER, with INDIA PROOFS of the plates. "This more nearly approaches our ideal of an edition consistent in all its parts than any of its predecessors or successors. Wales' designs are here suppressed, and a new series by Absolon substituted. They are quaint, unaffected, and picturesque, and have the signal merit of seeming an emanation from and efflorescence of the book itself, rather than a set of artistic notions grafted on it." 357 WALTON'S LIVES of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Walton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. To which are added the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index and illustrative notes. Numerous fine portraits and engravings on streel, vignettes on wood, &c., &c. 8vo, crimson morocco extra. London, John Major, 1825. LARGE PAPER. INDIA-PROOF PLATES. THE ABOVE FOUR LOTS, Nos. 354 to 357, being the full series of MAJOR'S EDITIONS ON LARGE PAPER (1st, 2d, and 4th editions of the "Angler and Lives"), together 4 vols. 8vo, most superbly bound in full crimson Levant, crushed and polished, with morocco joints, full gilt sides, backs, and inside borders, red edges, by BOSQUET. $150 00. 358 WALTON and COTTON. COMPLETE ANGLER. MAJOR'S FIRST EDITION. 359 360 361 The Same. MAJOR'S THIRD EDITION. Of this edition no copies were printed on large paper. London, 1823. Portraits and Plates. 12mo, The Same. MAJOR'S FOURTH EDITION. Plates by Absolon, &c. 12mo, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, $5 50 London, 1844. 362 The Same. Another copy on LARGE PAPER, with PROOF IMPRES- 363 WALTON and COTTON'S COMPLETE ANGLER. Dove's Edition. Engraved 365 Scarce. Chiswick Edition, portrait and vignettes. 2 vols. 24mo, full crimson morocco, gilt edges. $600. Printed by T. Whittingham, and Sold by T. Tegg, Chiswick, 1824. The Same. Second Chiswick Edition. Portrait and vignettes. 2 vols. 24mo, sprinkled cf. extra, gilt leaves, $5 00. Chiswick, 1826. These two editions are verbatim reprints of Hawkins' 1797. 366 WALTON and COLTON. The COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. COLES' ED'N. Embellished with portraits of the authors, and engravings of the river fish described in the work. 12mo, hf. green morocco, $2 00. 367 368 369 London, Printed for William Cole. N.D. (1825 ?) This Edition is not mentioned in the last edition of Lowndes. The Same. PICKERING'S DIAMOND EDITION. Front. and engraved title by Stothard, new cuts of fish, &c. 32mo, crimson morocco extra, $5 00. London, William Pickering, 1825. Another copy on thick paper. 32mo, green morocco extra, $5 00. London, Pickering, 1825. The Same. PICKERING'S SECOND EDITION. Portraits of Walton and Cotton, vignette on title. 24mo, green morocco gilt, $3 00. London, Pickering, 1826. 370 WALTON and COLTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. RENNIE'S FIRST ED'N, with Lives and Notes by Sir John Hawkins, Kt. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Portrait and wood-cuts. 12mo, hf. green mor. Edinburgh, 1833. neat, $2 25. 371 372 373 374 The Same. neat, $2 25. 375 The Same. RENNIE'S SECOND EDITION. 12mo, hf. green mor. neat, $2.00. London, 1834. The Same. RENNIE'S THIRD EDITION. 12mo, hf. green mor. neat, $2.00. London, 1835. The Same. RENNIE'S FOURTH EDITION. 12mo, hf. green morocco, neat, $1 75. London, 1836. RENNIE'S SEVENTH Ed'n. 12mo, hf. green morocco, Manchester (1851). The Same. RENNIE'S EIGHTH EDITION. 12mo, hf. green mor. neat, $250. The above 6 lots are all identical, being merely paginary reprints. Mr. Westwood had never met with. Halifax, 1857. The 5th and 6th editions 376 WALTON AND COTTON. LEWIS' REPRINT OF MAJOR'S EDITION. Portraits and plates, post 8vo, calf antique, red edges. $450. London, L. A. Lewis, 1839.· 377 Por THE SAME. WASHBOURNE'S REPRINT of MAJOR'S EDITION. traits and Plates. Post 8vo, crimson cf., gilt leaves. $3 50. London, Henry Washbourne, 1842. "In both the above editions the 'Introductory Essay' has replaced the old biographies of Walton & Cotton, by Hawkins."—T. W. 378 WALTON & COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. Wood-cut facsimile of the original title-page. 24mo, hf. green morocco, gilt, red edges. 379 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation; being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish Ponds, Fish, and Fishing; written by Izaak Walton; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by Charles Cotton. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Portraits. Views and portraits of Fish. Rubricated titles. 2 vols. imperial 8co, green Turkey morocco, gilt top, uncut edges. $75 00. W. Pickering, London, 1836. WITH AN ADDITIONAL SET OF PLATES, printed upon plate paper, ARTIST'S PROOFS on INDIA PAPER. 2 thick vols. imperial 8vo, handsomely bound in full olive morocco extra, gilt gauffred leaves, &c. $125 00. W. Pickering, London, 1836. Only a few copies issued in this sumptuous style. This edition (first issued in numbers) was the result of seven years' patient research and fostering care on the part of its publisher. Paper and type, as might be expected from a publisher preeminent for the beauty of the books issued by him, are both admirable in their kind, and the titlepage, as Mr. H. R. Francis rightly remarks, is of a perfection that might "trouble the ghosts of the Aldi." 381 WALTON and COTTON. Complete Angler. TILT'S EDITION; woodcut front. and illuminated title. 2 vols. 24mo, blue morocco, gilt leaves. $3 00. London, Chas. Tilt, 1837. 382 WALTON and COTTON. The COMPLETE ANGLER, &c.; with copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical Preface, giving an Account of Fishing and Fishing Books, from the earliest Antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings by the American Editor. To which is added an Appendix, including illustrative Ballads, Music, Papers on American Fishing, and the most complete Catalogue of Books on Angling, &c., ever printed. Also a General Index to the whole work. Portraits and Plates as in Major's Edition, post 8vo, crimson morocco, gilt leaves. New York, John Wiley, 1852. The THIRD AMERICAN EDITION (First, 1847; Second, 1848), edited by Dr. W. G. Bethune. "Could we admit the necessity of erudition in this case, we should be disposed to assign to Dr. Bethune's version a foremost rank in the annotated series. The wisdom he brings to bear upon his task is of the benevolent order, cordial, reverent, and sympathetic, and his criticism has nothing in common either with the flippant or dry-as-dust school. For the lover of angling-books, and for the collector especially, there is no edition so useful as this."-WESTWOOD: "Chronicle of the Complete Angler." 383 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. (Causton's Edition.) With a new Introduction and Notes, and embellished with 85 engravings on copper and wood. 12mo. (cr. 8vo), hf. green morocco, gilt. $3.00. London, Henry Causton, 1851. A re-furbished edition of Moses Browne's Edition. The Publisher was a descendant of Richard Causton, the printer of Browne's revival of 1772. 43 384 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. New Edition, EDITED by "EPHEMERA" (Edward Fitzgibbon). Numerous woodcuts of fish, Sq. cr. 8vo, crimson morocco, gilt leaves. $500. London, Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853. plates of flies, &c. FINE COPY: the margins neatly ruled with red lines. "This edition, on practical, working grounds, deserves commendation. The editor grafts on it, in notes and appendices, his own system of the practice of the sport as expounded more fully in his "Hand-Book of Angling."-T. W. 385 386 The Same. "EPHEMERA'S" SECOND EDITION. somely bound in full green Turkey morocco, extra, borders of gold on the sides, joints, gilt leaves, &c. Sq. cr. 8vo, handwith broad dentelle $5 00. London, N. Cooke, 1854. The Same. "EPHEMERA'S" THIRD EDITION. Sq. cr. 8vo, full purple morocco extra, gilt leaves. $4 50. London, Routledge, 1859. 387 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. With Lives of the Authors, and Variorum Notes, historical and practical. Edited by EDWARD JESSE, Esq. To which are added papers on Fishing Tackle, Fishing Stations, &c., by H. G. Bohn. Portraits and woodcuts. Cr. 8vo, hf. green mor. $3.00. London, H. G. Bohn, 1856. Thick cr. 8vo, hf. green morocLondon, 1856. 388 1861. The Same. WITH EXTRA PLATES. co, full gilt. $4 00. According to Bohn's Lowndes (1864), the copies with extra illustrations were only issued in "The Biographies are a refacimento of those by Hawkins."-T. W. 389 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Frontispiece on wood. 2 vols. 24mo, polished cf. gilt. $4 50. London, Groombridge & Sons, 1858. "Apparently a re-issue of Tilt's edition (1887) and acceptable on the same grounds, namely, the absence of all tags and tassels, and the merit of a plain and unperplexed text."—T. W. 390 WALTON and COTTON. NATALI AND BOND's re-issue of the celebrated Pickering edition of 1836. 2 vols. impl. 8vo, hf. morocco, gilt top. $22 50. London, Natali & Bond, 1860. India impressions of the plates. 391 WALTON and COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. Edited by John Thick 8vo, Major. LITTLE, BROWN & Co.'s AMERICAN EDITION. Only 100 copies. LARGE PAPER. This elegant edition is a paginary reprint of Major's 4th, 1844, with the woodcuts re-engraved, and INDIA PROOF impressions of the plates by Absolon, elegantly printed on heavy paper, at the University Press, Cambridge. 392 WALTON AND COTTON. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, &c. Murray's reprint of the Original Edition, 1653. Sq. 12mo, limp cloth. $0 75c. London, Alex. Murray, 1869. Appended is a Bibliographical List of Editions of Walton, based upon Bohn's Lowndes, and enumerating 35 ed'ns. There should be 55, according to Mr. Westwood's "Chronicle." Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler, CHRONICLE of; see Westwood (Thos.). 393 WALTON and COTTON'S ANGLER. ILLUSTRATIONS TO; a series of fiftyfour beautiful engravings on steel after Stothard and Inskipp. INDIA IMPRESSIONS, small folio, unbound, $13.50. The finest series of illustrations to Walton yet issued. 7 London, 1836. |