The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing: in Two Parts; the First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton, the Second by Charles Cotton, Esq; with the Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, 4th edition, with large Additions, printed for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784, engraved frontispiece to each part (portrait to second part), fourteen engraved plates, letterpress engravings, engraved head and tail-pieces, spotted and toned, B8 with 2" repaired closed tear to lower margin, 12 pages publisher's catalogue at rear (final leaf with small piece missing from blank fore-margin), bookplate of Richard Adams, upper hinge split, contemporary sprinkled calf, sometime rebacked, rubbed, slight loss at head of spine, corners showing, 8vo (1)
The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing: in Two Parts; the First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton, the Second by Charles Cotton, Esq; with the Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, 4th edition, with large Additions, printed for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784, engraved frontispiece to each part (portrait to second part), fourteen engraved plates, letterpress engravings, engraved head and tail-pieces, spotted and toned, B8 with 2" repaired closed tear to lower margin, 12 pages publisher's catalogue at rear (final leaf with small piece missing from blank fore-margin), bookplate of Richard Adams, upper hinge split, contemporary sprinkled calf, sometime rebacked, rubbed, slight loss at head of spine, corners showing, 8vo (1)
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