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. Isaac Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, esq.; with the lives of the authors, and notes historical, critical, and explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins, knt
Edition: The 5th ed., with additions.
Publisher: Printed for F. and C. Rivington
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishing; Early works to 1800
Notes: Plates engraved in line by W. W. Ryland, after S. Wale.

"This is the 1791 edition, with a new title-page, the title of the second part [The complete angler ... Being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream] dated 1791, being retained."--Westwood, Thomas. The chronicle of the "Compleat angler," 1883, p. 37.

Words and music of two songs: Like hermit poor, by Nicholas Lanier, and The angler's song, by Henry Lawes, facing Part I, p. 110 and 208 respectively.

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