Author:
WALTON Izaak
Title:
The Compleat Angler
Price:
£320.00
Year:
1760
Edition:
1st Hawkins Edn,
Publisher:
Thomas Hope
Summary:
lvi + xxii + 303 + xlviii + iv + ii + 128 pages, + index, full page and text engravings, contemporary ownership name to top margin of title page "John Harris", armorial bookplate of Edward Harris to front paste down. Original full calf binding 4cm split to lower front edge of spine also loss to base of spine, small chip to leather top edge of front board, lacking part of the label. Generally a clean tight copy in the original state. Hawkins reproduced the two parts of the 1676 edition ignoring most of Moses Brownes changes, he disagreed with Brownes editing. Coigney 9
Ref:
18314
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