The Compleat Angler: or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation
Isaac Walton was born in Stafford and moved to London when he was in his teens to learn a trade. He wrote the book ”The Compleat Angler” which reflects the author’s connections with these two locations, especially on the River Dove, Central England that forms the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire in the Peak District. The book was dedicated to John Offley of Madeley, Staffordshire, and there are references in it to fishing in the English Midlands. However, the work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting at Tottenham. In this classic book, the thirteen chapters of the original had grown to twenty-one, and a second part was added by his friend and brother angler Charles Cotton, who took up Venator where Walton had left him and completed his instruction in fly-fishing and the making of flies. This edition on offer is an English version
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