Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton — The Compleat Angler

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1897. Cloth. A decorative copy of The Compleat Angler, richly illustrated throughout. The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in both prose and verse by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. This is a reprint of the fifth edition with an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne and illustrated by Edmund H. New. With the Angler's Calendar to the rear of the volume. With fifty two full page illustrations and a frontispiece and other illustrations within the text. Collated, compete.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading and marks to the boards and spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: Edmund H. New. Good .