Title continues: "Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: The First Written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With the Lives of the Authors: and Notes, Historical, Supplementary, and Explanatory, By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. and the Present Editor." The last forty years of Walton's life were spent visiting eminent clergymen and others who enjoyed fishing, compiling the biographies of people he liked, and collecting information for The Compleat Angler. He sometimes visited Charles Cotton in his fishing house on the Dove. The first edition of his book, spelled The Compleat Angler, was published in 1653. Notes by Sir John Hawkins.
