Author:
WALTON Izaak
Title:
The Compleat Angler
Price:
£1200.00
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, Errata, top edge gilt the pages uncut, 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 167 signed by R.B Marston, with illustrations on India. Bound in full green morroco with the Walton – Cotton cipher in gilt on the front covers. 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. Ownership signature to inner blank of both volumes a few faint scratch marks to the upper cover of volume 1 . A very good clean set. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 255; Coigney 139; Horne 136; Oliver 125;
Ref:
23099
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