[Complete Walton] Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne. Wotton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson. With Love and Truth. Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Kevnes Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist

Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne Wotton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson. With Love and Truth. Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist

Author: Walton, Izaak; Keynes, Geoffrey (ed)

8vo (5.5" x 8.375") 1929. Walton, Izaak; Keynes, Geoffrey (ed). Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press. Full brown calf with gilt "I.W." within an oval wreath to upper cover. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title/author to second compartment. Marbled endpapers, top edge darkened, other edges deckled. Extremities rubbed, rear cover rubbed, head of spine chipped with loss. A beautiful book.

From Wiki: The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse; 6 verses were quoted from John Dennys's 1613 work The Secrets of Angling. It was dedicated to John Offley, his most honoured friend. There was a second edition in 1655, a third in 1661 (identical with that of 1664), a fourth in 1668 and a fifth in 1676. In this last edition the thirteen chapters of the original had grown to twenty-one, and a second part was added by his friend and brother angler Charles Cotton, who took up Venator where Walton had left him and completed his instruction in fly fishing and the making of flies. Walton did not profess to be an expert with a fishing fly; the fly fishing in his first edition was contributed by Thomas Barker, a retired cook and humorist, who published a treatise of his own, The Art of Angling in 1651;[9] but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" himself could speak as a master. The famous passage about the frog, often misquoted as being about the worm-"use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer"-appears in the original edition. The additions made as the work grew did not affect the technical part alone; quotations, new turns of phrase, songs, poems and anecdotes were introduced as if the author, who wrote it as a recreation, had kept it constantly in his mind and talked it over point by point with his many friends. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed "Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport.

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