The Compleat Angler

First edition

The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler, though this spelling also occurs in first editions) is a book by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. 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.[1]

The River Lea at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, where Izaak Walton used to fish

It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1931.

  1. ^ Walton, Izaak; Cotton, Charles (1897). The Compleat Angler. London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head. This edition reprints the 5th edition of 1676.