Shelfmark
Cq.2.2.11 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Iaa3.1.05 - Iaa3.1.06 (copy 2)
Author
Title
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; 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.
Publication, distribution, etc.
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.
Physical description
lvi, xxii, 303, [1], xlviii, iv, ii, iv, 128, [8] p. plates : ill. ; 8vo.
Note
Edited by Sir John Hawkins, who signs the preface.
Note
Life of Cotton by William Oldys (signed "W.O.").
Note
Part II has separate dated title-page and pagination, but the register is continuous.
Note
Horizontal chain-lines in some gatherings.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Engraved illustrations designed by Samuel Wale, and engraved by Ryland.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T84919
Citation/references note
Horne, B.S. The Compleat Angler, 9
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1794, no. 19).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914).
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Armorial bookplate of Eton College library, recording donation by Major General Villiers Hatton. Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Armorial booklabel in black and gold of Robert Hoe, founder member of the Grolier Club in New York.
Binding
[Copy 1]: 18th century gold-tooled, polished calf.
Binding
[Copy 2]: Bound in two volumes; early 19th century English red straight grain morocco; blind tooled with palmette and feather rolls, gold tooled single fillet frame with Greek-style fleurons at each corner, and a gold tooled angler's pouch in the centre; gold tooled roll along board edges; gold tooled letters and angler's pouch repeated on spine; doublure blind tooled with palmette roll, and lined with brown paper. Ms. note in vol. 1:"Bound by T. Gosden".
Copy-specific note
[C opy1]: Contains clipping of advertisement for work, dated 1st July 1760, loose.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: Extra-illustrated with portraits and images of fish, by Audinet, Linnel and others. Ms. note indicates this to be from Rev. Samuel Prince's library.
Subject
Fishing Early works to 1800.
Subject
Fishes Early works to 1800.
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Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Wale, Samuel, ? - d. 1786 engraver.
Added entry--name
Audinet, Philip, 1766 - 1837 engraver.
Added entry--name
Hoe, Robert, 1839 - 1909 former owner.
Added entry--name
Gosden, Thomas, 1780 - 1843 binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B15180