THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Arcturus Publishing edition.

(1653, 1676) 2010 new edition. 4to (215 x 261mm). Pp208. Monochrome illustrations from old engravings, introduction by Tim Gwynne-Jones. Laminated boards.

A new edition which includes Charles Cotton's contribution on flyfishing, and a 2-page introduction by Tim Glynne-Jones. "THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, or the contemplative man's recreation. Being a discourse of rivers, ponds, fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. With instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream." This edition is based, in Part I, on the 1653 edition, and in Part II on the edition of 1676. Chapters include: Part I (Walton); Angler, hunter and falconer; Otter and chub; The chavender or chub; Trout, and the milk maid's song; More on trout, with some merriment; The umber or grayling; The salmon; The luce, or pike; The carp; The bream; The tench; The perch; The eel; The barbel; The gudgeon, the ruffe and the bleak; Is of nothing; Of roach and dace, and of cadis; The minnow, the loach and the bull-head; Of several rivers; Of fish-ponds; Making a line, and colouring rod and line. Part II (Cotton); Piscator Junior and Viator; The principal rivers in Derbyshire; Cotton's fishing house, with his apology for writing a supplement to Walton's book; Angling for trout and grayling; Of fly-fishing; Fishing at the top, fly-making, time when the grayling is in season, rock in pike-pool; Fishing at the top, flies for January, February, March, April and part of May, the green-drake; Flies for the end of May till December, dapping with the stone-fly; Flyfishing in windy weather; Dressing trout and grayling; Angling at the bottom for trout and grayling, by hand with a running line, with cork or float, various baits; Angling in the middle for trout and grayling.