Research Catalog

Title

The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation / of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ; edited by John ; with eight original etchings and seventy-four wood engravings.

Author

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Publication

London : J. C. Nimmo, 1889.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
• Major, John, 1782-1849.
• Jackson, John, of Tanfield Mill.

Description

xv, 445 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Fishing > Early works to 1800

Note

• Pt. II, by C. Cotton, has half-title: The complete angler...being instructions how to angle for a trout or gravling in a clear stream.
• Etchings by B.L.A. Damman, after A.H. Tourrier; plates include line-engravings by A. Fox and W.J. Cooke, after J. Inskipp and T. Stothard; wood engravings after T. Creswick, K. Meadows, J.W. Archer and others.
• Printed at the Ballantyne press, London and Edinburgh.
• Words and music of The angler's song, by H. Lawes, harmonized for four voices by J.S. Major, p. 430-431.
• "The practical fly-fisher ... by John Jackson. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1889," 16 p. at end.
• Binding, by Blackwell, London, of three quarters green morocco.

Call Number

MYG (Walton, I. Complete angler. London, 1889)

OCLC

31405242

Author

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Title

The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation / of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ; edited by John ; with eight original etchings and seventy-four wood engravings.

Imprint

London : J. C. Nimmo, 1889.

Added Author

Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.

Major, John, 1782-1849.

Jackson, John, of Tanfield Mill.

Research Call Number

MYG (Walton, I. Complete angler. London, 1889)