The complete angler, or The contemplative man's recreation
By: by Isaac Walton. And, Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream / by Charles Cotton
Publisher: Wiley & Putnam
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishing; Early works to 1800; Bibliography
Other titles: Contemplative man's recreation.; Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream.; Complete angler
Notes: "With copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings by the American editor [G.W. Bethune]. To which is added an appendix, including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, etc., ever printed. Also, a general index to the whole work."

Includes bibliographies and index.

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