The complete angler: or, contemplative man's recreation : Being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts. The first written by Mr. Isaac Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq; Illustrated with upwards of thirty copper-plate cuts of the several Kinds of River-Fish, of the Implements used in Angling, and Views of the principal Scenes described in the Book. To which are prefixed, the lives of the authors. And notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Contributor:

Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing--Early works to 1800.

Fishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxviii,303,[1]xlviii,x,128,[8]p.,plates ) ill.,port.,engr.music ;

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Complete angler

The complete angler

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John and Francis Rivington, (no 62) at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Caslon, in Stationers-Court, MDCCLXXV. [1775]

Notes:

Part 2 has a separate titlepage dated 1774, and pagination, but the register is continuous.

Horizontal chain-lines.

With four final leaves of index.

A variant has lviii preliminary pages to part two, the last 10 pages being renumbered.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T84739.

OCLC:

642715376