The compleat angler / by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ; with an introduction by John Buchan and an appendix containing a modernized text of The arte of angling (1577).

The compleat angler / by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ; with an introduction by John Buchan and an appendix containing a modernized text of The arte of angling (1577).

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1960.

xxiv, 363, [1] p. : ill., 2 facsims. ; 16 cm

The World's classics ; 430

"The first part of The Compleat angler was published in 1653. Cotton's second part appeared for the first time with the fifth edition of the former in 1678 [i.e. 1676]. The two parts together were first published in The World's classics in 1935... The appendix containing the modernized text of The Arte of angling (1577) was added to this volume in 1960."

Includes facsimile reproductions of the original t. p. of each part.

World's classics ; 430.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR3757.W6 C6 1960