THE COMPLETE ANGLER, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing Written By Isaac 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

The First Chatto and Windus Edition and the Third Nicolas. Illustrated throughout with 61 embellishments on full page plates and as facsimiles, as head-pieces and as from designs by Stothard and Inskipp. Thick 8vo, handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco by Lewis and Harris of Bath, England, the spine with raised bands, gilt fishing motifs decorate the compartments, two are lettered in gilt, turnovers are double gilt fillet ruled, marbled endleaves. cci, [vii], 320, 32 ads. pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved and still unopened.

Edizione: first chatto and windus edition and the first illustrated by stothard and inskipp. a lovely edition, illustrated throughout and handsomely bound, still unopened and near as pristine.<br> the complete angler is a great sporting book, and one of the most treasured works in the english language. walton's angler has been described as "full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language." "more than most authors he lives in his writings, which are the pure expression of a kind, humorous and pious soul in love with nature, while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art" (dnb).