THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR, CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In two parts: The first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With "The Lives of the Authors" and notes historical, critical, supplementary and explanatory by Sir John Hawkins, Knt
by WALTON, Isaac, and Charles Cotton
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London: Printed for Samuel Bagster (Printed by Mercier & Co.), 1808. First Bagster edition. 8vo. (4), vi, [7]-61, [lxii]-lxvi, 67-344, [347]-499, [500-501], 502-512, (2, Bagster ad leaf) pp. 32 engravings, including 17 copper engravings of fish, portraits, plates. Coigney 17. Somewhat later green cloth-backed drab boards (spine ends a little worn, corners and edges bumped), gilt spine title. Very good copy.
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- THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR, CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In two parts: The first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With "The Lives of the Authors" and notes historical, critical, supplementary and explanatory by Sir John Hawkins, Knt
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