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• The Compleat Angler (based on the 1909 Cassell edition, with added illustrations from other editions), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, contrib. by John Hawkins and Edward Fitzgibbon, illust. by Samuel Wale, George Samuel, and Cornelius Pearson (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Complete Angler (does not include Cotton's later contributions), by Izaak Walton (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Angler (based on the first edition of 1653, with a new preface), by Izaak Walton, contrib. by Richard Le Gallienne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Complete Angler (expanded two-part version), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, by Juliana Berners (illustrated HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The compleat angler (The Clarendon press, 1915), by Izaak Walton, Thomas Balston, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete angler; or, the contemplative man's recreation (E. Stock, 1896), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation (G. Bell and sons, 1889), by Izaak Walton, Henry G. Bohn, Edward Jesse, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1908), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1928), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler & the lives of Donne, Wooton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. (Macmillan, 1901), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The compleat angler (Modern Library, 1939), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle. (E. Stock, 1880), by Juliana Berners, Wynkyn de Worde, and M. G. Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (Stackpole co., 1953), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing (Nattali and Bond, 1860), by Izaak Walton, Daniel B. Fearing, Charles Cotton, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genteel recreation: or, The pleasure of angling, a poem. (Reprinted for J.H. Burn, 1820), by John Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing (T. Tegg & Son ;, 1835), by Izaak Walton, James Rennie, John Hawkins, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler, or The contemplative mans̓ recreation : being a discourse of fish and fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers (A. & C. Black, 1928), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, : or, The contemplative man's recreation, (H. G. Bohn, 1856), by Izaak Walton, Edward Jesse, Henry G. Bohn, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler of Walton and Cotton (W. Scott, 1895), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler; or, The contemplative man's recreation. (C.E.Goodspeed, 1928), by Izaak Walton, Daniel Berkeley Updike, W. A. Dwiggins, and Merrymount Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing (S. Bagster and Sons, 1893), by Izaak Walton, James Edmund Harting, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler : or The contemplative mans̓ recreation (Appleton, 1925), by Izaak Walton and James Thorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler; or The contemplative man's recreation (Wiley & Putnam, 1847), by Izaak Walton, F.G. Loeb, Frank S. Hatch, George W. Bethune, Bernard S. Horne, Charles Cotton, Zaehnsdorf (Firm), Mass.) Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Philip C. Duschnes (Firm), and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler (F. Warne, 1869), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'agriculture et maison rustique (chez André Laurens, 1702), by Charles Estienne and Jean Liébault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete angler (H.M. Caldwell, 1899), by Izaak Walton, John Major, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal angler (And sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1766), by Richard Bowlker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler : or, The contemplative man's recreation (Methuen & Co., 1901), by Izaak Walton, John Buchan, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A concise treatise on the art of angling : confirmed by actual experience and minute observations, with the proper methods for breeding and feeding fish and of making fish-ponds, stews, &c., with several arcana never before made public; to which is added The complete fly-fisher; The game-laws relative to angling; and prognostics of the weather independent of the barometer (Printed for B. Crosby, 1794), by Thomas Best (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of angling. (T. Lowndes, 1781), by R. Brookes, Daniel B. Fearing, Thomas Lowndes, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete angler (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1884), by Izaak Walton, John Major, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation (Navarre society ltd., 1925), by Izaak Walton, John Major, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise upon angling with small and great rode : shewing the different flies, and baits through the various seasons of the year : to which is adjoined fishing in ponds ([s.n.], 1729), by James Keill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Fischereibuch Kaiser Maximilians I. (Wagner, 1901), by Maximilian I. Holy Roman Emperor and Michael Mayr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book containing the treatises of hawking, hunting, coat-armour, fishing, and blasing of arms : as printed at Westminster, by Wynkyn de Worde, the year of the Incarnation of our Lord MCCCClxxxxvi. (Re-printed by Harding and Wright for White and Cochran, and R. Triphook, 1811), by Juliana Berners and Joseph Haslewood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of angling (Printed for W. Lowndes ... and sold by G. Sael ... T. Hurst ... and at the fishing tackle shops., 1799), by R. Brookes, Daniel B. Fearing, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'agriculture et maison rustique de M.M. Charles Estienne & Iean Liebault ... : reueuë & augmentée de diuerses curiositez dignes de remarque ..., auec vn brief recueil des chasses du cerf, du sanglier, du lieure, du renard, du blereau, du connil, du loup, des oyseaux, & de la fauconnerie : plus La fabrique et vsage de la jauge, ou diapason ..., ensemble vne instruction pour scavoir en quel temps, mois, lune, & saison on doit semer & replanter ... (Chez Nicolas de La Vigne ..., 1640), by Charles Estienne, Gervais de La Court, Jean de Clamorgan, and Jean Liébault (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'agriculture et maison rustique (Chez Laurens Maury ..., 1658), by Charles Estienne, Gervais de La Court, Jean de Clamorgan, and Jean Liébault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers, & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaus secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs, et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Le tout divisé en cinq livres. (P. Brunel, 1695), by François Fortin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatyse of fysshynge with an angle (William Pickering, 1827), by Juliana Berners, Daniel B. Fearing, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation. (Fraser ;, 1836), by Izaak Walton, Daniel B. Fearing, James Rennie, John Hawkins, Charles Cotton, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fishponds, fish, and fishing (Henry Washbourne, 1842), by Izaak Walton, Daniel B. Fearing, Charles Cotton, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton : extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original paintings and drawings, by first-rate artists. To which are added, an introductory essay ; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work ; and illustrative notes. (John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, 1824), by Izaak Walton, William Nicol, John Major, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (L. Phillips, 1914), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (J.M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Izaak Walton and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler : or The contemplative man's recreation (Miland, 1970), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (Dent ;, 1906), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Complete family-piece : and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide : in three parts ... (London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, C. Rivington, S. Birt, T. Longman and J. Clarke in Duck-Lane, 1737., 1737), by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oppiani De piscibus libri V (In aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1517), by active 2nd century Oppian, Lorenzo Lippi, and Franciscus Asulanus (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Higginbotham, fishing-rod maker, (from Drury-Lane) at the Golden-Fish, no.98, opposite Southampton-Street, Strand; makes all sorts of fishing-rods, and all manner of the best fishing-tackle, wholesale and retale, [sic] and sells the right Kirby hooks ... ([London, 1772), by John Higginbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler : or, The contemplative man's recreation (E.Stock, 1877), by Izaak Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (Musson, 1906), by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete angler (J.M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Izaak Walton and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation (W. Griggs, 1882), by Izaak Walton and William Griggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler (Dent, 1902), by Izaak Walton, Daniel B. Fearing, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler : or Contemplative man's recreation; being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing, (Freemantle, 1902), by Izaak Walton, Daniel B. Fearing, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler & the lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson. (Macmillan, 1906), by Izaak Walton, Robert Sanderson, George Herbert, Richard Hooker, Henry Wotton, and John Donne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de toutes les espèces de pêches (Chez H. Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Poitevins, no 18, 1795), by M. Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Agasse, and Jacques Lacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation (Grosset & Dunlap, 1900), by Izaak Walton and Ernest Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sportsman's dictionary; or, The gentleman's companion: for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses both for the road and turf; also the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill fowls, turkeys, geese, dichs, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. and the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents. (Peter Hoey, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gecroonde verhandelinge door de Keyzerlyke en Koninglyke Academie van Wetenschappen en Letter-kunde van Brussel ten jaere 1780 tot antwood op de vraeg: Aen te wyzen de soorten van visschen die het gemeyn voorwerp zyn van de vangst, zoo op de kusten als in de rivieren van Vlaenderen, de misbruyken, die in die visscheryen in swang zyn, te kennen te geéven, met de middelen om de zelve te verbeéteren. (P.J. Hanicq, 1780), by Guilleaume François Verhoeven (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler (George Routledge & Sons, 1853), by Izaak Walton, Edward Fitzgibbon, Charles Cotton, Edwards and Co Savill, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing (W. & R. Chambers ;, 1833), by Izaak Walton, H. Y. Sears, W. H. Lizars, James Rennie, John Hawkins, and Charles Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le ménage des champs, et le jardinier françois accomodez au gout du temps : dans lesquelles on peut apprendre facilement à aprêter tout ce qui est necessaire pour l'usage de la vie à la campagne, & même à la ville, & la maniere de cultiver parfaitement les jardins fruitiers, potagers, & fleuristes, avec un traité de la chasse & de la pêche : ouvrage utile à toutes sortes de personnes. (A Paris : Chez Michel David, quay des Augustins à la Providence, MDCCXI [1711], 1711), by Louis Liger and Michel David (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplative man's recreation (Printed for S. Bagster, 1808), by Izaak Walton, Caroline Tyler Lea, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Walter Faxon, Daniel B. Fearing, John Hawkins, Charles Cotton, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete angler (J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883), by Izaak Walton, William Swan, William Carmichael McIntosh, Bernard S. Horne, A. H. Tourrier, Benjamin Damman, John C. Nimmo, John Major, Charles Cotton, and Leighton Son & Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Délices de la campagne, ou Les ruses de la chasse et de la pesche, ou l'on voit comment on prend toute sorte d'oiseaux & de bêtes à quatre pieds : Un traité de la volerie & des oiseaux qui y servent. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche, et la manière de faire les rets & les filets : Augmenté d'un dictionnaire le tous les termes de chasse, de pêche & de filets. (M.C. Le Cene, 1732), by Louis Liger and François Fortin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat angler being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream. (London : Printed for Richard Marriott and Henry Brome ..., 1676), by Charles Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The experienc'd angler, or, Angling improv'd being a general discourse of angling, imparting many of the aptest wayes and choicest experiments for the taking of most sorts of fish in pond or river. (London : Printed for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1662), by Robert Venables (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat angler or, The contemplative man's recreation. Being a discourse of fish and fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. (London, : Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, in S. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet, 1653), by Izaak Walton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode ... (London : Printed for B. Harris, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1675), by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Barker's delight (London : [s.n.], 1653), by Thomas Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Boke of Saint Albans ([Enprynted at westmestre : By wynkyn the worde, the yere of thyncarnac[i]on of our lorde. M.CCCC.lxxxxvi. [1496]]), by Juliana Berners (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Boke of Saint Albans. Selections. 1566. ([London] : Imprynted at London in Paules churche yerde by Robert Toye, [1566]), by Juliana Berners (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M. (London : Printed by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne, [1590]), by Leonard Mascall and Juliana Berners (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The angler's vade mecum, or, A compendious, yet full, discourse of angling discovering the aptest methods and ways ... for the catching all manner of fresh-water fish ... : together with a brief discourse of fish ponds, and not only the easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish ... / by a lover of angling. (London : Printed for Tho. Bassett ..., 1681), by James Chetham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The complete fisher. (London : Printed for G. Conyers ... and John Sprint ..., 1696), by J. S. (John Smith) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The boke of Saint Albans. (Printed at London : [By Thomas Snodham] for Iohn Helme, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1614), by fl. 1614 T. S. and Juliana Berners (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The country-mans recreation, or The art of [brace] planting, graffing, and gardening, [brace] in three books. The first declaring divers waies of planting, and graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or plant with the root, and without the root; to sow or set pepins or curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your grafts and cions, to help barren and sick trees, to kill worms and vermin, and to preserve and keep fruit; how to plant and proin your vines, and to gather and presse your grape; to cleanse and mosse your trees, to make your cider and perry, with many other secret practises which shall appear in the table following. The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, ... with some directions for tabaco. Whereunto is added, The expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art, ... hereunto is likewise added the Art of angling. (London, : Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in St. Pauls Church-yard, near the little north door, 1654), by Thomas Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A booke of angling, or fishing Wherein is shewed, by conference with scriptures, the agreement betweene the fishermen, fishes, fishing of both natures temporall, and spirtuall. By Samuel Gardiner Doctor of Diuinitie. (London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, 1606), by Samuel Gardiner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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