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The Compleat Angler
1653 book by Izaak Walton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler, though this spelling also occurs in first editions) is a book by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse.[1]
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It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1931.