WALTON, Izaak and Charles COTTON. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation . Ed. John Major. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. 4to. Extra illustrated edition, with 50 steel engravings, 8 etchings (including two portraits), and 10 hand-colored engravings at end in John Jackson's Treatise on Flies and Fly Hooks . Contemporary green morocco, covers with triple-fillet border, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated with fish motifs, turn-ins gilt. This is the first Nimmo (14th Major) reprint. Horne 123.
WALTON, Izaak and Charles COTTON. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation . Ed. John Major. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. 4to. Extra illustrated edition, with 50 steel engravings, 8 etchings (including two portraits), and 10 hand-colored engravings at end in John Jackson's Treatise on Flies and Fly Hooks . Contemporary green morocco, covers with triple-fillet border, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated with fish motifs, turn-ins gilt. This is the first Nimmo (14th Major) reprint. Horne 123.
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