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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 memoir and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas ....

Accession number
PML 9337-38
Creator
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
Published
London : William Pickering, 1836.
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.
Description
2 v., [14] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm + 61 extra illustrations
Provenance
Bookplates: Robert Samuel Turner, Toovey (Burnham Abbey).
Binding
Green morocco by F. Bedford.
Classification
Department