The Compleat Angler: Or Contemplative Man's Recreation. In Two Parts. By ... Isaac Walton and C. Cotton. I. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. II. Instructions how to Angle for a Trout Or Grayling in a Clear Stream ... Ornamented with ... Copper-plates and ... Notes by M. Browne ... Seventh Edition ... with the Laws that Concern Angling, Etc1759 |
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