Title: The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, & Sanderson Author: Walton, Izaak Place: London` Publisher: Nonesuch Press Date: 1929 Description: Nine drawings and two seals by Thomas Poulton colored in pochoir, and five portraits engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist (8vo) original full brown Niger, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled slipcase. No. 1293 of 1600 copies Most celebrated for "The Compleat Angler," which has gone through more than 400 editions since its first printing in 1653, Walton has lately come to be seen as one of the fathers of modern biography as well as the patron of the piscatorially inclined. With the bookseller label of San Francisco's Gelber-Lilienthal at rear. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to slipcase, with rubbing to corners and toning to the inside, some wear and soilign to binding, darkening to spine, some spotting; darkening to endpaper edges, interior clean; very good or better. Item number: 278013
Title: The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, & Sanderson Author: Walton, Izaak Place: London` Publisher: Nonesuch Press Date: 1929 Description: Nine drawings and two seals by Thomas Poulton colored in pochoir, and five portraits engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist (8vo) original full brown Niger, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled slipcase. No. 1293 of 1600 copies Most celebrated for "The Compleat Angler," which has gone through more than 400 editions since its first printing in 1653, Walton has lately come to be seen as one of the fathers of modern biography as well as the patron of the piscatorially inclined. With the bookseller label of San Francisco's Gelber-Lilienthal at rear. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to slipcase, with rubbing to corners and toning to the inside, some wear and soilign to binding, darkening to spine, some spotting; darkening to endpaper edges, interior clean; very good or better. Item number: 278013
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