Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" JohnsonWALTON, IZAAK, AND CHARLES COTTONThe Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Piccadilly: Freemantle & Co., 1902 2 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 260 x 190 mm). Dry-point frontispiece, titles in red and black, folding facsimile of Walton's will, red-lettered tissue guards, etched plates by William Strang and D.Y. Cameron; some scattered foxing to preliminary leaves, not affecting plates. Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second and fourth gilt-letters, others with gilt angling motif, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; spines sunned, foxing to fore-edges and endpapers. The Winchester Edition, number 96 of 150 copies, signed by illustrators William Strang and D.Y. Cameron. REFERENCE:Coigney 215Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" JohnsonWALTON, IZAAK, AND CHARLES COTTONThe Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Piccadilly: Freemantle & Co., 1902 2 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 260 x 190 mm). Dry-point frontispiece, titles in red and black, folding facsimile of Walton's will, red-lettered tissue guards, etched plates by William Strang and D.Y. Cameron; some scattered foxing to preliminary leaves, not affecting plates. Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second and fourth gilt-letters, others with gilt angling motif, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; spines sunned, foxing to fore-edges and endpapers. The Winchester Edition, number 96 of 150 copies, signed by illustrators William Strang and D.Y. Cameron. REFERENCE:Coigney 215Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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