 | College students' writings, American - 1853 - 380 pages
...all his credulity. The former is shown in apt quotation, such as the motto to the first edition : " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing ; and they said, We also will go with thee." John xxi, 3 ; and in his ingenious eulogium upon his element and calling. The latter has innumerable instances,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1856 - 366 pages
...elasses Amphibia and Pisces of Linnseus. 4to, Lond. 1788. WALTON'S (Isaac, of Stafford) COMPLEAT ANGLEB; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. 12mo, Lond. 1653. 2d Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1655. 3d Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1664. 4th Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1668.... | |
 | John Russell Smith - Fishing - 1856 - 60 pages
...classes Amphibia and Pisces of Linnaeus. 4to, Lond. 1788. WALTON'S (Isaac, of Stafford) COMPLEAT ANOLEB; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. 12mo, Lond. 1653. 2d Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1655. 3d Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1664. 4th Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1668.... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1856 - 378 pages
...classes Amphibia and Pisces of Linnseus. 4to, Lond. 1788. WALTON'S (Isaae, of Stafford) COMPLEAT ANGLEB; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. 12mo, Lond. 1653. 2d Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1655. 3d Edit. . 12mo, Lond. 1664. 4th Edit. 12mo, Lond. 1668.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...taste of the age ; the following passage from St. John's Gospel being printed under the vignette, " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing, and they said, We also will go with thee." The book soon became most popular, especially among the royalists ; for there are passages which would... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn - English literature - 1865 - 186 pages
...inlaid, 31. Utterson, in 1852, morocco, 6/. 12s. 6d. Gardner, 2327, 21. 17s. Pickering, morocco, 71. 10s. The compleat Angler, or the contemplative Man's Recreation: being .a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing; to which is added the Laws of Angling, witk a new Table of the... | |
 | R. Lakeland - Fishing - 1858 - 114 pages
...Walton's angler, 1653. There is published a book of eighteenpence price, called " The Compleat Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal." These works may now be considered as great bibliomaniacal curiosities." ADDENDA. It is altogether a... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...is, which I have sometimes imagined was derived from Walton's motto on the title of his book : — " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also will go with thee. — John xxi. 3." This passage is not in all the editions of the " Complete Angler," but it was engraven on... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1860 - 432 pages
...in " The Perfect Diurnall : from, Monday, May 9th, to Monday, May I6(h, 1653," p. 2716. London, 4to. "The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation,...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers, of 18 pence price. Written by Iz. Wa. Also the known Play of the Spanish Gipsee, never till now published... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - Fish culture - 1861 - 88 pages
...and Wales. 8vo. Manchester, 1847. Walton (Izaac), A Drama. See Dance. Walton (Isaac, of Stafford), The Compleat Angler ; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation,...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. 12mo. London, 1653. (Price Eighteenpence). 2nd edit. 12 mo. London, 1655 ; 3rd edit. London, 1664;... | |
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The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also -will go with thee. 
