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. 1484 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear, fading and rubbing to slipcase, light wear to binding; near fine volume in very good slipcase. Item number: 271414
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. 1484 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear, fading and rubbing to slipcase, light wear to binding; near fine volume in very good slipcase. Item number: 271414
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