The Compleat Angler (1949)

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The Compleat Angler (1949)
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Science & Nature

The Compleat Angler (1949)

Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
Edition year 1949
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Lynton Lamb
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 274
Dimensions 22.9 × 15 cm

Edition details

Compleat Angler, The or The Contemplative Man's Recreation by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, with a full-page frontispiece and 28 small illustrations in the text by Lynton Lamb. Bound in full green cloth with a border of rules in blind; endleaves with a design in grey by Lamb. White dust-jacket printed in grey and black. 274pp. 22.9x15cm.

About the book

Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler is a classic seventeenth-century work combining fishing instruction with reflections on nature and rural life. Written largely as a dialogue between anglers, the book offers practical advice while celebrating rivers, countryside, friendship and quiet contemplation. Its appeal extends far beyond fishing, making it one of the best-loved works of English pastoral prose. First published in the seventeenth century, it remains admired as much for its gentle literary charm as for its place in the history of angling.

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