WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, L. A. Lewis, 1839. In-8° (122 x 188 mm), dark blue half-calf with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). "With Notes biographical and explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors." Fourteen plates (of 15) including three portraits. From the Georg Schackne and Ohlsoni libraries, with bookplates. Missing facsimile of first edition title page; first spine cracked; second board detached; one plate dislodged. EDITION GIVEN BY LEWIS. Westwood & Satchell, 309-310.
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WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation.
Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, L. A. Lewis, 1839. In-8° (122 x 188 mm), dark blue half-calf with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding).
"With Notes biographical and explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors."
Fourteen plates (of 15) including three portraits.
From the Georg Schackne and Ohlsoni libraries, with bookplates.
Missing facsimile of first edition title page; first spine cracked; second board detached; one plate dislodged.
EDITION GIVEN BY LEWIS.
Westwood & Satchell, 309-310.
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