Front cover image for The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing

The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (Author), John Hawkins (Editor), James Rennie (Editor), W. H. Lizars, H. Y. Sears (Artist)
Print Book, English, 1833
W. & R. Chambers ; W. Orr ; W. Curry, Jun. & Co., Edinburgh, London, Dublin, 1833
Early works
3 preliminary leaves, 328 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, music ; 18 cm
4280283
Issued in publisher's binding of gray paper boards, with a green cloth spine and paper label
Publisher's device of an owl over an arrangement of printer's flowers printed on the title page
"Edinburgh: Printed by Andrew Shortrede, Thistle Lane"--Title page verso and at the foot of page 328
Frontispiece and "The Angler's Song" engraved by W.H. Lizars
Four woodcuts by H.Y. Sears
The 1st Rennie edition