The Complete Angler

or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

By Izaak 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 note on fishing and fishing-books, and a notice of Cotton and his writings, by the American Editor, (Geo. W. Bethune, D.D.), 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

Two volumes in one.

Coigney No. 153 - The Eighth Bethune Edition.

Corners and edges of boards a little rubbed, crease to corner of several pages but otherwise internally clean and tidy, hinges delicate. Despite these faults, still overall a very good hardback.

(1653) 1891 Ward Lock edition. Large 8vo (148 x 218mm). Ppxl,294,xxx,215,xcii. B/w plates, wood engravings in the text. Decoratively blind-stamped dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, edges dyed blue.

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A nice edition of Walton's Angler with a good amount of extra material, biographical and bibliographical notes, poems, letters and more.

Coigney, in his excellent bibliography of The Complete Angler, states that this edition "...is a reissue from the plates of the sixth Bethune edition of 1880 (No. 109) with a number of modifications: there is a new title-page with no printer's imprint on the verso; there is a half-title to Part I and one to Part II, the Piscatorial Letter from Bethune to Lanman is omitted, but is replaced by a two-page preface introducing Bethune to British readers; the Saptogus poem is omitted as well as the Advertisement to the American edition and the woodcut from the Treatyse of Fysshinge Wyth an Angle; the Bibliographical Preface by the American editor has been moved to the end of the book, after the index, and is titled Bibliographical Note..."

An attractive late nineteenth century edition of the most famous of all angling books.