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The Compleat Angler

First edition

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]

The River Lea at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, where Izaak Walton used to fish

It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1931.

Background

Walton was born in Stafford and moved to London when he was in his teens in order to learn a trade. The Compleat Angler 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.

Walton was not sympathetic to the Puritan regime of the 1650s and the work has been seen as a reaction to the turbulence of the English Civil War and its aftermath; "the disorder of the present times received muted comment in the work's scenes of harmony", is the view of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[2]"Study to be Quiet" was one of Walton's favourite mottos.

Sources

Walton's sources included earlier publications on the subject of fishing, such as the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle included in the Book of Saint Albans. Six verses were quoted from John Dennys's 1613 work The Secrets of Angling.

Editions

The Compleat Angler was first published by the bookseller Richard Marriot, whose business was based in Fleet Street near where Walton had a shop. Walton was a friend of Marriot's father John, who had started the business, but was in retirement by the time the book appeared. The book was printed by Thomas Maxey of Paul's Wharf.[3]

La primera edición presentó un diálogo entre el pescador veterano Piscator y el estudiante Viator , mientras que ediciones posteriores cambian a Viator por el cazador Venator y añaden al halconero Auceps .

Hubo varias ediciones durante la vida del autor. Hubo una segunda edición en 1655, una tercera en 1661 (idéntica a la de 1664), una cuarta en 1668 y una quinta en 1676. En esta última edición, los trece capítulos del original habían aumentado a veintiuno, y una segunda parte fue agregada por su amigo y hermano pescador Charles Cotton , quien retomó Venator donde Walton lo había dejado y completó su instrucción en pesca con mosca y fabricación de moscas . [4]

Ilustraciones

A partir de la primera edición, que contaba con ilustraciones anónimas, la obra ha inspirado a artistas como Arthur Rackham (1931).

Referencias

  1. ^ Walton, Izaak; Algodón, Charles (1897). El pescador completo. Londres y Nueva York: John Lane: The Bodley Head.Esta edición reimprime la quinta edición de 1676.
  2. ^ Martín, J. (23 de septiembre de 2004). Walton, Izaak (1593-1683), autor y biógrafo. Diccionario Oxford de biografía nacional . Consultado el 9 de junio de 2018, en http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28653. (Se requiere suscripción o membresía de una biblioteca pública del Reino Unido)
  3. ^ Maxey (Thomas) PDBP 1641-1667
  4. ^ Chisholm, 1911.

Fuentes

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 Este artículo incorpora texto de una publicación que ahora es de dominio público :  Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Walton, Izaak". Enciclopedia Británica . vol. 28 (11ª ed.). Prensa de la Universidad de Cambridge.

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