THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING, NOT UNWORTHY THE PERUSAL OF MOST ANGLERS. [By Izaak Walton]. With illustrations by Mr Paul Cook.

(1653) 2002 Medlar Press edition. 12mo (95 x 151mm). Pp246. B/w illustrations by Paul Cook, silk marker ribbon. Red cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt and black, blind-stamped motif to upper board. Edition limited to 200 copies in cloth and 99 in leather.

An attractive small format edition with Paul Cook's fine illustrations. "...I decided to go back to the very first edition to give the full flavour of the original work, only correcting obvious mistakes (and those terribly annoying 's' characters which read as 'fs')." Jonathan Ward-Allen, publisher. Does not include Charles Cotton's contribution. An edition of only 200 cloth-bound copies plus 99 bound in leather. This is a copy of the cloth-bound edition.