Front cover image for The complete angler : or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fishponds, fish, and fishing

The complete angler : or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fishponds, fish, and fishing

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (Author)
Print Book, English, 1842
Henry Washbourne, London, 1842
Early works
lxxii, 396 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, music, portraits ; 21 cm
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Originally published in 1653 under title: The compleat angler; 5th edition published in 1676 with title: The universal angler, written by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton and Robert Venables. This copy is the Washbourne (5th major)--reprint which is a reprint of the Lewis edition of 1839
Includes facsimile reproduction of title page of the original edition, London, 1653
Includes index