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Izaak Walton

English author and biographer (1593-1683)

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  • Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.
  • Writers: twenty portraits of essayists and novelists. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

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    Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages, and other incomparable pieces of language and art. Also additional letters. [With his life by Izaak Walton] To several persons, not before printed / by ... Sir Henry Wotton.

    Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. | Date: 1672
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    The complete angler ; or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / In two parts: the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, esq. With the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, knt.

    Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 | Date: 1808
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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. London, Printed by T. Maxey for R. Marriot, 1653 / [Izaak Walton].

    Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. | Date: [1907]

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