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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER

Written by Izaak Walton
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. in 1931

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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
Written by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1329918
1st. 1931. Hardback. Very good condition.

Grey/green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 12 pastoral colour plates capture the spirit of this well-loved book. B/w text illustrations. Grey/green pictorial endpapers. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine is lightly browned. Mark to front cover. Endpapers and prelims lightly browned. Name and date in ink (neat) to half title-page. Some light fingermarks to margins of first few pages. A nice copy.

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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
Written by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1315197
1st. 1931. Hardback. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Grey/green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 12 pastoral colour plates capture the spirit of this well-loved book. B/w text illustrations. Grey/green pictorial endpapers. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers are sunned, light scratch mark to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, light foxing to textblock and heavier foxspots to prelims. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with damp stains to sides of spine, 2" loss to top of spine and a small patch of loss to centre of rear panel.

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Front cover

Cover of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER by Izaak Walton

Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • DEDICATORY EPISTLE
  • INSCRIPTION TO THE READER
  • CHAPTER ONE: Conference betwixt an Angler, a Hunter, and a Falconer: each Commending his Recreation
  • CHAPTER TWO: Observations of the Otter and Chubb
  • CHAPTER THREE: How to Fish for, and to Dress, the Chavender, or Chub
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Observations of the Nature and Breeding of the Trout, and how to Fish for him; and the Milk maid's Song
  • CHAPTER FIVE: More Directions how to Fish for, and how to Make for the Trout an Artificial Minnow and Flies; with some Merriment
  • CHAPTER SIX: Observations of the Umber or Grayling; and Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Observations of the Salmon; with Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Observations of the Luce, or Pike; with Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER NINE: Observations of the Carp; with Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER TEN: Observations of the Bream; with Directions to Catch him
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Observations of the Tench; and Advice how to Angle for him
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: Observations of the Perch; and Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Observations of the Eel, and other Fish that want Scales; and how to Fish for them.
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Observations of the Barbel; and Directions how to Fish for him
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Observations of the Gudgeon, the Ruffe, and the Bleak; and how to Fish for them
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Is of Nothing, or that which is Nothing Worth
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Of Roach and Dace, and how to fish for them
  • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Of the Minnow or Penk, of the Loach and of the Bull-head or Miller's Thumb
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN: Of several Rivers; and some Observations of Fish
  • CHAPTER TWENTY: Of Fish-ponds and how to Order them
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Directions for Making of a Line and for the Colouring of both Rod and Line