Title: The Compleat Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing Author: Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton Place: London Publisher: Samuel Bagster and Sons Date: 1893 Description: 2 volumes. Abridgement of the Lives of the Authors by John Hawkins. Edited with notes by J.E. Harting. Illustrated with etchings on Japan vellum by Percy Thomas engravings of Riverside animals & birds by G.E. Lodge, & from paintings by John Linnell (Large 8vo) 25x19 cm (9¾x7½"), vellum-backed green cloth, gilt-stamped crane on front covers, gilt-lettered and piscatorially stamped spines, cloth dust wrappers lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. From an edition of 350 copies, this copy designated number 7 of "ten over copies". Tercentenary (First Harting) Edition. An important edition of Walton's classic angling work, this edition containing the lives of Walton & Cotton, abridged from the Hawkins editions, to which are added notes by the new editor. Harting was the librarian of the Linnean Society of London. Lot Amendments Condition: Jackets lightly worn and soiled; light spotting to vellum, previous owner's name on rear endpapers; near fine in very good jackets. Item number: 233216
Title: The Compleat Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing Author: Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton Place: London Publisher: Samuel Bagster and Sons Date: 1893 Description: 2 volumes. Abridgement of the Lives of the Authors by John Hawkins. Edited with notes by J.E. Harting. Illustrated with etchings on Japan vellum by Percy Thomas engravings of Riverside animals & birds by G.E. Lodge, & from paintings by John Linnell (Large 8vo) 25x19 cm (9¾x7½"), vellum-backed green cloth, gilt-stamped crane on front covers, gilt-lettered and piscatorially stamped spines, cloth dust wrappers lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. From an edition of 350 copies, this copy designated number 7 of "ten over copies". Tercentenary (First Harting) Edition. An important edition of Walton's classic angling work, this edition containing the lives of Walton & Cotton, abridged from the Hawkins editions, to which are added notes by the new editor. Harting was the librarian of the Linnean Society of London. Lot Amendments Condition: Jackets lightly worn and soiled; light spotting to vellum, previous owner's name on rear endpapers; near fine in very good jackets. Item number: 233216
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