The complete angler
Subtitle: or, Contemplative man's recreation. Being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts
By: The first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton ... Illustrated with upwards of thirty copper-plate cuts of the several kinds of river-fish, and of the implements used in angling, views of the principal scenes described in the book. Engraved by Mr. Ryland. To which is now prefixed, the lives of the authors. And notes historical, critical, and explanatory. By John Hawkins ...
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed for J. Rivington
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishing; Early works to 1800
Notes: Plates engraved in line by W. W. Ryland, after S. Wale.

Part II has separate t.p.: The complete angler ... Being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream ... London, 1760.

Words and music of two songs: Like hermit poor, by Nicholas Lanier, and The angler's song, by H. Lawes, facing p. 126 and 236.

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