complete angler
Subtitle: or The contemplative man's recreation
By: of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ; edited by John Major ; with fifty steel engravings, seventy-four wood engravings, and six original etchings and two portraits.
Contributors: Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.; Major, John, 1782-1849, ed.; Gallup, Vernon, donor.; John C. Nimmo (Firm),; Fly Fisherman's Library.; Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection.
Edition: Extra-illustrated ed.
Publisher: John C. Nimmo
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Fishing
Work titles: Compleat angler.
Notes: "This extra-illustrated edition of 'The complete angler' is specially designed for collections of this famous work ... one hundred and twenty copies only are printed, each of which is numbered"--cf. Publisher's note, p. [ii].

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet.

Includes index.

WSU MASC has copy no. 40 and 47.

WSU MASC copy 2 is in two vols.

WSU MASC copies are: 002-123048977, c. 1 ; 002-123047847, v. 1, c. 2, 002-123047854, v. 2, c. 2.

WSU MASC copy 2 signed on front flyleaf: "Thomas Brocklebank, March 1st 1896".

WSU MASC copy 2 inscribed on front flyleaf: "To John E. Berwind, In remembrance, not of a large catch, but of a fine good day, Sincerely Lewis A Scott, Dec 28th 1915".

WSU MASC copies donated by Vernon Gallup.