The complete angler . Or the contemplative man's recreation. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing, written by Izaak Walton. And instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton. With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, K.C.M.G.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1860
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 3160675
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., frontis. ports, plates . ill.., plates, ports. geneal. tables . 4to. Provenance: Not indigenous. Meade Collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Ink stamp: “Frankleigh House Library”. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Rev. The Honble Sidney Meade [1839-1917] signed ‘CWS’. Binding: Half brown calf, marbled-paper boards, gold-lettered spines
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799-1848)