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 ; 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 ; 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
Contributors: Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687, author; Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862, editor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Wiley & Putnam
Published: 1847
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishing; Early works to 1800; Bibliography
Other titles: Complete angler; Contemplative man's recreation; Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream
Work titles: Compleat angler
Notes: Includes reproduction of original title page of Izaak Walton's work.

Edited by G.W. Bethune.

1 bibliographic volume in 2 physical volumes.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.