THE COMPLEAT ANGLER🎣/Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton Hardcover/Illus. 1897 fishing

Description: The Compleat Angler. Edited With An Introduction, By Richard Le Gallienne. Illustrated By Edmund H. New, 1897. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER based on Izaak Walton’s 5th printing. Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897, London. Rough cut pages. Size: 7.5" x 10" x 2". 428 pp. with Angler's Calendar of 14 pp., followed by 4 pp. of ads. Weight: 3.25 pounds. Updated with 246 illustrations including portraits of Walton and Cotton. Good condition in tanned cloth.Antique fishing handbook by the 17th century English nobleman, Izaak Walton (1593-1683), updated by Charles Cotton (1630-1687). His friendship with Izaak Walton began about 1655, and contradicts any assumptions about Cotton's character based on his coarse burlesques of Virgil and Lucian. Walton's initials, made into a cipher with Cotton's own, were placed over the door of Cotton's fishing cottage on the Dove near Hartington. Cotton contributed a second section "Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream", to Walton's The Compleat Angler the additions consisted of twelve chapters on fishing in clear water, which he understood largely but not exclusively to be fly fishing. Another addition to the volume was Cotton's well-known poem "The Retirement", which appeared from the 5th edition onwards. You will find this antique book selling for over $600.00 elsewhere.

Price: 219.45 USD

Location: Buena Park, California

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