THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. ...

.# (1653) 1988 reprint. Large 8vo (171 x 240mm). Pp224. Colour plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

.# "Being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy of the perusal of most anglers". Does not include Charles Cotton's contribution. Chapters include: Introduction by Henry Williamson; Conference betwixt an angler, a hunter, and a falconer, each commending his recreation; Observation of the otter and chub; How to fish for, and to dress, the chavender, or chub; Observations of the nature and breeding of the trout, and how to fish for him, and the milkmaid's song; More directions how to fish for, and how to make for the trout an artificial minnow and flies, with some merriment; Observation of the umber or grayling, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the salmon, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the luce or pike, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the carp, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the bream, and directions to catch him; Observations of the tench, and advice how to angle for him; Observations of the perch, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the eel, and how to fish for them; Observations of the barbel, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the gudgeon, the ruffe, and the bleak, and how to fish for them; Chapter Sixteen is of nothing, or that which is nothing worth; Of roach and dace and how to fish for them, and of cadis; Of the minnow or the penk, of the loach, and of the bull-head or miller's thumb; Of several rivers, and some observations of fish; Of fish-ponds, and how to order them; Directions for making a line, and for the colouring of both rod and line.