| Front | the Complete Angler |
|---|---|
| Back | Isaak Walton fish and fishing 1676 three sportsmen , a fisherman, a huntsman and a fowler travel north through the countryside from Tottenham to ,,.. discussing merits of their respective pastimes in fact this book is partly an anthology of previous writers on fishing and the mass of related subjects included 40 songs and verses, pastoral and devotional writing 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. It was 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.[1 |
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