The Compleat Angler (2000) - Folio Society edition

The Compleat Angler (2000)

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The Compleat Angler (2000) - Folio Society edition
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The Compleat Angler (2000)
Folio Society
Science & Nature

The Compleat Angler (2000)

Izaak Walton
Edition year 2000
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Arthur Rackham
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 224
Dimensions 25.3 × 19 cm

Edition details

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton. 3rd. edition. 12 colour plates & b&w woodcuts by Arthur Rackham. Top page edge gilt. Bound in green gilt-decorated cloth. 224pp.

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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