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.

  • Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
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1760
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Compleat angler

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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.

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lvi,xxii,303,[1],xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,[8]p.,plates : ill.,port.,engr.music ; 80.

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ESTC T84919

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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