Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; Sir Harris Nicolas — The Complete Angler

London, William Pickering, 1836. Leather. An impressive illustrated edition of Izaak Walton's important philosophical work on angling. Complete in two volumes.An impressive illustrated edition of 'The Complete Angler&apos.Volume I is illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, two monochrome plates, six hand-coloured plates, and thirteen in-text vignettes and head-pieces.Volume II is illustrated with a five hand-coloured plates, and thirty-four in-text vignettes and head-pieces.Collated, complete.'The Compleat Angler' is a well known seventeenth century work celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse.The work was admired by the likes of Charles Lamb, who admired it for it's innocence and simplicity of the heart. In fact it is so popular that it is the second most reprinted book in English after the King James Bible.Walton's writing is vivid and expands further than being just a fishing manual, with passages of rich description, such as describing the contents in the bag of an angler.Izaak Walton is now best known for this work, though he professed to not be an expert with a fishing fly. He also wrote a collection of short biographies called 'Walton's Lives&apos.With contributions by Charles Cotton, a poet, who is best known for these contributions, and for his translations of the works of Michel de Montaigne. In a rebacked morocco binding. Externally, smart. Spines are faded. Light marks and rubbing to the boards and spines, marks heavier to Volume I. Minor bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Gift inscription to the half-titles. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .