The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and fishing / written by Izaak Walton ; and Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton ; with original memoir and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas ....
Accession number:
PML 9337-38
Published:
London : William Pickering, 1836.
Description:
2 v., [14] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm + 61 extra illustrations
Notes:
Added, engraved and illustrated, title page, dated 1832.
Issued in parts, 1832-1836.
Verso of t.p.: C. Whittingham, Tooks Court ...
Contains 61 illustrations by many prominent artists of the day, including Stothard and Inskipp, engraved by Augustus Fox, W.J. Cooke, W.H. Worthington and others.
T.p. in red and black.
Words and music of: The angler's song / by H. Lawes, on pages 266-7.
Includes index.
Extra-illustrated with 12 additional plates, 9 of which are by J.T. Willmore after J. Absolon.
Binding:
Green morocco by F. Bedford.
Variant Title:
Complete angler
Provenance:
Bookplates: Robert Samuel Turner, Toovey (Burnham Abbey).
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