 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 366 pages
...GENTLEMAN'S POCKET FARRIER ; showing how to use a Horse on a Journey. Price Is. WALTON'S ANGLER. The COMPLETE ANGLER, or, the CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; being a Discourse on Fish and Fishing. By ISAAC WALTON. Elegantly printed, verbatim, from the Edition of 1653, illustrated with Plates engraved... | |
 | W C. Stewart - 1861 - 274 pages
...to have all the joys of angling set forth in genuine old English style, let him read Izaak Walton, " being a discourse on fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers." Here may be found a conglomeration of fertile meadows, crystal brooks, meandering streams, milk-maids'... | |
 | Robert W. Coleman - 1866 - 164 pages
...very numerous Steel plates and cuttings. London, S. Bagster, 1808. Xvo, 2 vols. Mr. Haslewood's copy. [WALTON]. The Compleat Angler or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. London, 1653. [Second Title]. The Compleat"... | |
 | 1882 - 800 pages
...Johnson, Boswcll, Goldsmith, Steclc, and Addison. The other is the house of Isaac Walton, author of " The Compleat Angler ; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation,...and Fishing not Unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers " — a book which in simplicity of language is equalled only by " The Pilgrim's Progress," its only... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...Boswell, Goldsmith, Steele, and Addison. The other is the house of Isaac Walton, author of " The Complcat Angler ; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being...and Fishing not Unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers " — a book which in simplicity of language is equalled only by " The Pilgrim's Progress," its only... | |
 | 1911 - 850 pages
...an almanac of 1653. "THE COMPLEAT ANGLER" "There is published a Book of Eighteen-pence price, called the COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION...a discourse on Fish and Fishing. Not unworthy the perusall." By 1730 this modest advertisement had grown to display proportions in several different... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1911 - 578 pages
...life and works of Thomas Fuller. 1856. Tovey, DC Reviews and Essays in English Literature. 1897. IZAAK WALTON The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a flshing : and... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Printed Books - 1913 - 188 pages
...books. By John Milton. Licensed and entred according to order. London, Peter Parker, 1667. 7. Izaac Walton. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a discourse of fish and fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. London, T. Maxey for R. Marriot, 1653.... | |
 | Frank Karslake - 1920 - 784 pages
...advertisement being the one that heralded its birth : " There is published a Booke of Eighteen-pence, called the Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative man's Recreation...Fishing. Not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. Sold by Richard Harriot in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Flete-street." In 1682 was started by John Houghton... | |
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Contemplative man's Recreation; being a Discourse on Fish and Fishing. Not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. 
