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"The Compleat Angler Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation" 1947 WALTON, Izaak (SOLD)

WALTON, Izaak

[219] pp.

The Peter Pauper Press

1947

10 1/4" x 6 1/4"

Illustrated by Boyd Hanna

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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