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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 memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas.

Accession number
PML 144621-22
Creator
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
Published
London : William Pickering, 1836.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Includes index.
Added, engraved and illustrated, title page, dated 1832.
Issued in parts, 1832-1836.
"C. Whittingham, Tooks Court ..."--T.p. verso.
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.
Title page in red and black.
Library's copy has illustrations and headpiece ornaments printed on India proof paper and mounted in place within the text.
Description
2 volumes (ccxii, 129; 436 pages), [14] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original gray wrappers; housed in green cloth slipcases.
Classification
Department