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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER

by Izaak Walton

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1931

Very good condition in a almost very 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.

Light bumping to spine and corners. Some foxing; mostly to endpapers and outer page edges; a few to page margins. All plates present. Scarce dustwrapper is grubby with some edge-creasing and tears; a few chips of loss. Splash mark down one edge of wrapper; some scuffing.

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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

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