WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, Printed only for Thomas Hope [...] and sold by him and Sackville Parker, at Oxford ; Richard Matthews, at Cambridge, and Samuel Trimmer, at Derby, 1760. 2 parts in one in-8° volume (112 x 175 mm), long-grained dark blue morocco, gilt fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed with custom decoration, combed edges (mid-19th c. binding). Two parts in one volume with separate paginations: - LVI + XXII + 303 + [I] pp. & -- XLVIII + IV + II + IV + 128 + [VIII] pp. "To which are now prefixed, the Lives of the Authors [...] and Notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory" by Sir John Hawkins. Two frontispieces, including a portrait, a vignette with the arms of Édouard Popham, to whom the work is dedicated, fourteen plates engraved by RYLAND after WALE (two of which are musical scores) and seventeen vignettes in the text. Handwritten annotations on verso of first frontispiece; large restored tear on folio 201/202; marginal restoration on third plate and folio 237/238; some foxing. A GOOD COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION GIVEN BY JOHN HAWKINS. Westwood & Satchell, 286-288.