The complete angler; or, The contemplative man's recreation
Subtitle: two parts : the first by Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton
Series: [Diamond classics]; Diamond classics
Publisher: William Pickering
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Fishing; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Contemplative man's recreation; Complete angler :
Work titles: Compleat angler
Notes: Added t.p. engraved, included in pagination; signed, as is frontispiece: "T. Stothard ... Aug. Fox sc."

Part II has separate t.p.: The complete angler ... being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream ...

"The first Pickering edition" and series: cf. Wood, Oliver, Horne. "Pickering's miniature edition:" Grolier Club handlist.

Biographical notices of Walton and Cotton: p. [v]-ix.

Words and music of: The angler's song / by H. Lawes: p. [185].

Oliver, P. Compleat angler, 27

Horne, B.S. Compleat angler, 1653-1967, 29

Wood, A. Complete angler, p. 50-51

Grolier. Chronological handlist of the Complete angler, p. 11

Gift of Daniel B. Fearing, June 30, 1915.

Stamp on verso of front free endpaper: Bound by Blackwell.
Table of contents: title: Two Parts. The First by Izaak Walton, the second. by Charles Cotton.