The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation & Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream
Author:
COTTON, CHARLES & WALTON, ISAAC
Title:
The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation & Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream
Subtitle:
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
Publisher:
Wiley & Putnam 1847
Description:
first U.S. edition, two parts bound as one, original binding, small octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board and spine, blind rule to boards and spine, frontispiece, cxi + 249pp (part one) + 249pp (part two), illus, VG (fading and rubbing to boards esp. spine, wear to extremities esp. corners and head and tail of spine, small hole to upper spine, small closed tear to head and tail of spine, light tanning, occasional foxing), lacks d/w
Keywords:
charles cotton isaac walton fishing history sport angling outdoors trout grayling america
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