Author:
WALTON Izaak, COTTON Charles, VENABLES Col Robert
Title:
The Universal Angler Made So By Three Books Of Fishing
Price:
£5200.00
Year:
1676
Publisher:
Richard Marriot
Summary:
The Walton being the 5th edition, The Cotton being the 1st edition and the Venables being the 4th enlarged edition. 275 pages +10 pages discourse on the laws of angling + contents 111pp + 96pp + 6pp table. Engraved general title to each section with frontis cartrouche to the Walton also Venables, 2pp of music, text illus throughout, some pages professionally clean. A vg clean copy recently bound in full dark green calf with fish motifs to spine compartments, AEG, bound by Period Bookbinders of Bath. Coigney 6, "The 5th edition was the last published during Walton's lifetime and it is the first in which his name appears on the title page; in many respects it is the most interesting of the five editions."
Ref:
19201