THE COMPLETE ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. By Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton. With Notes Biographical and Explanatory and the Lives of the Authors

The First Washbourne Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout with 76 decorations within the text, vignettes, head-pieces and tail-pieces, and with 15 full page engraved plates in black and white of scenes and fishing and of music. 8vo, bound in three-quarter green morocco over cloth covered boards, the spine with raised bands, gilt ruled panels within the compartments are tooled with fishing motifs in gilt at the centers, lettered in gilt in two compartments, top edge gilt. [xxvi], lxxii, 396 pp. A fine and handsome copy, the binding is strong, the text-block and illustrations are clean and well preserved, light mellowing to the green of the spine panel as is typical with the colour.

Edizione: the first washbourne edition. with an excellent life of the author.<br> a beloved classic of the english language and what many call the finest "how-to" book ever written; 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).