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. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq; To which are now prefixed, the lives of the authors. Illustrated with cuts of the several Kinds of River-Fish, and of the Implements used in Angling, Views of the principal Scenes described in the Book. And notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Contributor:

Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing--Early works to 1800.

Fishing.

Fishing--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lvi,xxii,303,[1],xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,[8]p.,plates ) ill.,port.,engr.music ;

Other Title:

Complete angler

The complete angler

Place of Publication:

London : printed only for Thomas Hope, at the Bible and Anchor, opposite the North Gate of the Royal-Exchange, Thread-Needle-Street; and sold by him and Sackville Parker, at Oxford; Richard Matthews, at Cambridge; and Samuel Trimmer, at Derby, 1760.

Notes:

Edited by Sir John Hawkins.

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

Horizontal chain-lines in some gatherings.

With four final leaves of index.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Horne, B. S. The Compleat Angler., 9

English Short Title Catalog, T84919.

OCLC:

642715602