The complete angler
Subtitle: 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.; Bethune, George W. 1805-1862.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Wiley & Putnam
Published: 1847
Place of publication: New York and London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishing -- Early works to 1800.; Fishing -- Bibliography.
Notes: Includes reproduction of original t.-p. of Izaak Walton's work.
Edited by G.W. Bethune.