The compleat angler or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish, and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers / by Izaak Walton ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Contributor:

Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Compleat angler

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing.

Physical Description:

223 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by The Riverside Press Limited.

Other Title:

Contemplative man's recreation

Place of Publication:

London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1931]

Notes:

With half-title.

Title in black and green; title vignette.

"The publishers acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs. John Lane, the Bodley Head, Limited, in permitting the use of their edition edited by Richard Le Gallienne, first published in 1897. The text is from the fifth edition of 1676, the last to be revised by the author, but the spelling is modernized."--T.p. verso.

"This reprint first published 1931 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. ..."

Introduction by Henry Williamson.

Plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Autograph letter of Arthur Rackham dated Dec. 1, 1936 removed and separately catalogued. See manuscript catalog.

Price from dust-jacket: 15/- Net.

Bound in dark grey cloth with gilt titles and fish on front cover and spine. Illustrated end papers.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained which features a color copy of plate on p. 82 on front cover and a caricature of Rackham by the credit "Illustrated by Arthur Rackham".

Culture Class Collection copy has advertisement leaf for "The Night before Christmas" also illustrated by Arthur Rackham laid in.

OCLC:

187551256