Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton ; With Lives of the Authors, and Notes by Sir John Hawkins.

The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. [1808]

London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Octavo,7th ed., later half-leather binding with red leather gilt title label ("Walton's Angler"), gilt rules, engraved half-title page and engraved frontis plate of Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, and Sir John Hawkins by Philip Audinet, with facsimile Walton signature, b&w plates and woodcuts through text, some foxing to edges of plates, pp 512. Previous owner's contemporary signature to upper title-page. Top corner bumped. Very good condition.

A celebration and philosophy of fishing, with a second part added by Walton's friend and fellow angler Charles Cotton, and a biography and notes by the author Sir John Hawkins. Item #104424

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