Author:
WALTON Izaak
Title:
The Compleat Angler
Price:
£1150.00
Year:
1888
Edition:
Lea and Dove 1st Marston Edn, being the 100th edition of the Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man Recreation
Publisher:
Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Summary:
2 Vols, xcvii A to T 118, Vol II 119 to 357 pages illustrated with 54 photogravures and about 100 woodcuts, 27 of the photographs are by P H Emerson. Limited to 250 copies in Royal Quarto edition deluxe, this being No 68, with illustrations on India paper all edges untrimmed, a vg+ unopened copy. Bound in grey paper covered boards white linen backed with paper labels. This binding is not recorded by Coigney, Horne does note the binding. The spine of volume 1 has the slightest of rubbing to head and tail and slight chipping to the paper title label, small crack to front inner gutter of volume 2. the cloth and boards are clean and unmarked. The "so-called 100th edition is a reissue of the first two parts of the fifth-edition of 1676, with the addition of a reprint of the 1883 edition of The Chronicle of the Complete Angler by Westwood and Satchell, and a list of Works referred to in The Compleat Angler after G.W. Bethune." this edition is particularly sought after for the fine Emerson photogravures. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 255; Coigney 139; Horne 136; Oliver 125
Ref:
21359