Authority Cited: Cotton
Author name and dates: Charles Cotton (1630-1687) [BKG Note; previously misidentified as Robert Bruce Cotton]
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BKG Bio-tweet: Royalist Gentleman; burlesque poet, Montaigne trans.; Compleat Gamester; Walton friend; Compleat Angler fly-fishing chapters
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the editions used by SJ are unknown; page citations are to the title editions below; in the Dict., all citations except untempted are only to Cotton]
Author name and dates: Charles Cotton (1630-1687) [BKG Note; previously misidentified as Robert Bruce Cotton]
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Royalist Gentleman; burlesque poet, Montaigne trans.; Compleat Gamester; Walton friend; Compleat Angler fly-fishing chapters
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the editions used by SJ are unknown; page citations are to the title editions below; in the Dict., all citations except untempted are only to Cotton]
- Sim and Simon, in Poems on Several Occasions Written by Charles Cotton, Esq., 1689, London : Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox in Westminster Hall; diminutive (p.66)
- Scaronnides in The genuine poetical works of Charles Cotton, Esq; containing, I. Scarronides: Or, Virgil Travestie. II. Lucian Burlesqu'd: Or, The Scoffer Scoff'd. III. The Wonders of the Peake. Illustrated with many curious cuts, all New-Design'd, and Engrav'd by the best Artists, 1734, London : printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, T. Ward, and E. Wicksteed; orisons (p.10) [BKG Note: The Wonders of the Peak is included in this title.]
- The Wonders of the Peak, By Charles Cotton, Esq, the second edition, 1744, Nottingham: printed by Tho. Collyer, and sold by the booksellers of York, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Derby, and Newark (first London ed. 1681, second London ed. 1683); expostulate (p.1); bright (p.13, 1773 Dict.); nonce (p.22); stability; untempted (p.31);
- The compleat angler: or, contemplative man's recreation. in two parts. Containing, I. A large and particular account of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: written by the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton. II. The best and fullest instructions how to angle for a trout and Grayling in a clear Stream. By Charles Cotton, Esq; and published by Mr. Walton, 1750, London : printed and sold by Henry Kent, at the Printing-Office in Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange; certain (1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: inexact quote in the 1773 Dict. edition from p.219, perhaps from memory]
- Cotton (no work cited);