THE COMPLETE ANGLER, or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts The first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq;

London, printed only for Thomas Hope at the Bible and Anchor opposite the North Gate of the Royal-Exchange Thread-Needle-Street; and sold by him and Sackville Parker at Oxford; Richard Matthews at Cambridge; and Samuel Trimmer at Derby, 1760.. TITLE CONTINUED: To which are now prefixed, The Lives of the Authors. Illustrated with cuts of the several Kinds of River-Fish, and of the Implements used in Angling, Views of the principal Scenes described in the Book. And notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory. FIRST HAWKINS EDITION 1760. 8vo, approximately 175 x 110 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, slightly trimmed copy, 15 full page engraved plates including portrait of Charles Cotton, 2 plates of music and 3 plates of fishing tackle, 17 small copper engravings of fish in the text, plus1 extra woodcut illustration of an early angler, 1 engraved headpiece, pages: lvi, xxii, 1-303, [1], xlviii, iv, ii, iv, 1-128, plus 8 pages of index, bound in full black morocco, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, date at foot, gilt decoration to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to binding, a small closed tear to the top of the title page, neatly repaired, not near text, title page and the 3 plates of tackle slightly dusty, occasional pale foxing to text and margins of plates, the 8 pages of index foxed, heavy on last 2 leaves, a small old printed label on W. Ryland (11 engraved illustrations are by William W. Ryland) pasted on first blank endpaper with previous owner's pencil notes below, otherwise a very good copy. See: Rodolphe L. Coigney, Izaak Walton A New Bibliography 1653-1987, page 133; Bernard S. Horne, The Compleat Angler 1653-1967, page 24; Peter Oliver, A New Chronicle Of The Compleat Angler, pages 23-29; The Library of The Late John Gerard Heckscher of New York City, No. 2018, pages 104-05; Westwood and Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria, page 221. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.