The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing...and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by Charles Cotton

London: Bagster, 1815. hardcover. very good. With the Lives of the Authors and Notes by Sir John Hawkins. Full-page copperplate engravings plus text illustrations. 508 pages + Index. Large 8vo, re-bound in smooth tan calf over marbled boards, original marbled edges; board slipcase. London: R. Watts for Samuel Bagster. Second Bagster edition.

The frontispiece & title page are heavily foxed; scattered foxing throughout.