The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation / by Isaac Walton ; and Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream / by Charles Cotton ; with copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings / by the American editor ; to which is added an appendix, including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, etc., ever printed ; also, a general index to the whole work. Part I [-II].

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