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. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq; To which are now prefixed, the lives of the authors. Illustrated with cuts ... And notes ...
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1760
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3082427
Summary
Bibliographic description
lvi,xxii,303,[1],xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,[8]p.,plates . ill..,port..,engr.music . 8vo.. Provenance: Deliberately damaged eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Hawkins's Compleat angler".
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789)