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| Title | The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and Fishing The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas |
| Author | Izaak Walton |
| Editor | Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas |
| Translated by | Charles Cotton |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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