The complete angler;
or The contemplative man's recreation,
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 ...
Description
- Related Names
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Loeb, F.G., associated name.
Hatch, Frank S., associated name.
Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862, associated name.
Horne, Bernard S., 1905-1970, former owner.
Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862, editor.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687, author.
Zaehnsdorf (Firm)
Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
Philip C. Duschnes (Firm)
John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York and London, Wiley & Putnam, 1847.
- Note
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Six unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements at the end.
The title page for Part II inlcudes only the New York imprint.
Edited by G.W. Bethune.
Includes reproduction of original t.p. of Izaak Walton's work.
"Robert Craighead, Printer, 112 Fulton Street. T.B. Smith, Stereotyper, 216 William Street"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
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2 volumes in 1.
frontispieces (portraits) illustrations, plates
19 cm
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