"The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation" WALTON, Isaak & COTTON, Charles

Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing WALTON, Isaak & COTTON, Charles [454] pp. The Bodley Head Ltd. 1931 7 1/2" x 5" Bound by Riviere & Son The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler, though this spelling also occurs in first editions) is a book by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. The River Lea at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, where Izaak Walton used to fish It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1931