GREAT BRITAIN. Isaak Walton (the "Father of Angling"). 1593-1683. Copper medal. 21.99 gm. 40.5 mm. BY E. Avern, published by T. Gosden. His bust right, head facing / Bust left of Charles Cotton, a poet contemporary of Walton. BHM 1240 (Rare). Good Extremely Fine.

Laurence Brown (BHM author) notes that Gosden, a London bookseller, brought out an edition of a book on Cotton and Walton in 1824 and probably produced this medal "as a means of advertising the publication of this work."