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1842 The Complete Angler
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding
'The Compleat Angler' is a well known seventeenth century work celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates, and in-text woodcuts. Collated, complete.
The work was admired by the likes of Charles Lamb, who admired it for it's innocence and simplicity of the heart. Walton's writing is vivid and expands further than being just a fishing manual, with passages of rich description, such as describing the contents in the bag of an angler.
Izaak Walton is now best known for this work, though he professed to not be an expert with a fishing fly. He also wrote a collection of short biographies called 'Walton's Lives'.
With contributions by Charles Cotton, a poet, who is best known for these contributions, and for his translations of the works of Michel de Montaigne.
Condition
In a quarter morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss, a little heavier to the extremities. Light marks to the boards, and fading to the extremities. Small chips to the front joint. Spine is faded. Front hinge is tender. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots.
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