Part of Modern Library Classics
Part of Modern Library Classics
The Compleat Angler
By Izaak Walton and Charles CottonIntroduction by Howell Raines
By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
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$19.00
Published on May 26, 1998 | 464 Pages
Published on May 26, 1998 | 464 Pages
Author
Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton, one of the earliest English biographers, is best remembered as the author of The Compleat Angler. In 1676 Walton asked a young follower, the poet Charles Cotton, to furnish a supplement on fly-fishing for the fifth edition of the book, a project that the two pursued at a cottage on the banks of the Dove River in Derbyshire.
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Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton (1630–1687) was a country gentleman, poet, and translator, who built a fishing house for himself and Izaak Walton at his birthplace, Beresford Hall in Staffordshire. In 1676, at Walton’s invitation, he wrote the second part to The Compleat Angler.
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