The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing.

WALTON Izaac and COTTON Charles. (Edited by Robert Bright Marston).

Published by London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, 1888

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Two volumes, royal quarto (33.5 x 27cm), published at £10 10s, the title-pages stating 'The Lea and Dove edition, being the 100th of The Compleat Angler.' No. 123/250 copies on English hand-made paper of the large paper Edition De Luxe signed by Marston with all the plates and illustrations on India paper. Vol. I. pp. c,[20],118; Vol. II, pp. [ii],119=357,[1]. With frontispiece portraits of Walton and of Cotton, a photograph of the statue of Walton in Winchester Cathedral, 27 photogravures after P.H. Emerson, 25 photogravures after George Bankart, 103 woodcut vignettes by F. Careless and three full-page maps. Some occasional light foxing. Like the smaller (& cheaper) demy quarto edition printed in an edition of 500 copies, this edition was issued in three bindings. This copy in the the superior full green crushed morocco, gilt, teg, marbled endpapers, decorative dentelles, the board fore-edges with double-gilt line, with the Walton-Cotton cipher in gilt on front & rear boards of both volumes. Lighty rubbed. Vg. [Oliver 124; Horne 136; Coigney 139; Westwood & Satchell Suppl. 255; Heckscher 2113; Norton 318].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing.
• Publisher: London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane
• Publication Date: 1888