The complete angler, or contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: in two parts
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Type of record: Book
Title: The complete angler, or contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: in two parts
Classmark: Sport/WAL
Creator(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)
Additional creator(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687) (Other); Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789) (Other)
Related people: Cotton, Charles; Hawkins, John
Publisher: Printed for F. and C. Rivington
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1792
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v in 1 (lxxxi, 267, [1], xxiv, 111, [11] p)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243403
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014178459705181
Description
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.
At front is an advertisement for Onesimus Ustonson, fishing-tackle maker (1 leaf).
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