The Complete Angler

or,

Contemplative Man's Recreation

Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing

by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

With notes biographical and explanatory, and the lives of the authors

Coigney No. 49 - The Lewis Edition.

Published by L.A. Lewis, 125, Fleet-Street, London.

Printed by Maurice, Clark, and Co., Howford-buildings, Fenchurch Street, London.

Strongly re-backed with later cloth spine retaining the probably original boards. Original title label pasted to spine. New front and rear end-papers. Occasional former owner's embossed address stamp (Deerpark, Sutton, Co. Dublin) to the margins of several pages. Owner's name (W. Lacy, Howth) on top corner of title-page. Occasional light foxing but contents really quite good for a book approaching two centuries old.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate on the front paste-down.

(1653) 1839 L.A. Lewis edition. 8vo (134 x 213mm). Pp[xxvi]lxxii,396. Illustrated with fifteen copper-plates plus seventy-six woodcut engravings. Original grey-brown paper-covered boards, later tan cloth spine with original title-label tipped-on. 15s. Coigney No. 49 - The Lewis Edition.

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A scarce and sought-after edition of the Angler. Coigney, in his excellent bibliography of The Complete Angler, states that this edition "is a reissue of the third Major edition of 1835 (No. 43), without Major's introduction which has been replaced by the biographies of the authors; the Thomson notes have been abridged.

The illustrations are those of the Major edition of 1835, but it has only 76 woodcuts instead of 77, 'Walton surrounded by the Graces' having been omitted. The 15 copperplates are present."