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The Complete Angler
4 volumes. With original memoirs & notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Bound in full brown Morocco with silk doublunes. By Baynton, all edges gilt with raised bands and ornate gilt tooling on covers & spines. Profusely illustrated with many full-page hand-colored plates and black & white illustrations. 4TO's
Leather Bound
Published January 1, 1836
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Charles Cotton
255 books4 followersCharles Cotton (1630-1687) was English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French and for his contributions to The Compleat Angler. The highly influential The Compleat Gamester has been attributed to him.
Cotton's reputation as a burlesque writer may account for the neglect with which the rest of his poems have been treated. Their excellence was not, however, overlooked by good critics. Coleridge praises the purity and unaffectedness of his style in Biographia Literaria, and Wordsworth (Preface, 1815) gave a copious quotation from the "Ode to Winter". The "Retirement" is printed by Walton in the second part of the Compleat Angler.
Cotton's reputation as a burlesque writer may account for the neglect with which the rest of his poems have been treated. Their excellence was not, however, overlooked by good critics. Coleridge praises the purity and unaffectedness of his style in Biographia Literaria, and Wordsworth (Preface, 1815) gave a copious quotation from the "Ode to Winter". The "Retirement" is printed by Walton in the second part of the Compleat Angler.
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