Daily News.—“The letterpress is excellent, as, indeed, we should have expected from so high an authority; the plates are likely to be of great service to the traveller, and with their aid he will be able to identify most of the flowers he may find among the mountains.”
Land and Water.—“These very beautifully illustrated volumes will be welcomed by the numberless people whose summer holiday is spent in Switzerland or the Alpine districts.”
Crown 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Top, with Portrait and Eighty-one Engravings, price 5s.
The Complete Angler
of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton.
Edited by John Major.
Scotsman.—“There are all sorts of editions of the fisher’s classic; but this will appeal most strongly to the man whose affections attach themselves with an equal tenacity to a good day’s fishing and a good book.”
Bookman.—“In Creswick’s engravings and all the other pictures—‘embellishments’ they are called in the language of the forties when Major brought out his edition—will lie the chief interest and charm. They alone would make Major’s edition one of the very best to possess.”
Glasgow Herald.—“As good an edition of the angler’s classic as any one need wish to have.”