IZAAK WALTON'S THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: THE ART OF RECREATION. By Jonquil Bevan, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Edinburgh.

1988 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxii,147. Illustrated from old engravings, bibliography. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Jonquil Bevan edited the 1983 Oxford University Press edition of the Compleat Angler. In this commentary she seeks to increase the appreciation and enjoyment of the Angler by placing it in its larger historical context.