WALTON (Izaac). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, & Fishing. London, Printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper, 1668. Small in-12 (89 x 142 mm), brown basane, smooth spine, brown half-maroquin slipcase (period binding), [XVI] + 255 + [I (blank)] + [XVI] pp. "To wich is added, The Laws of Angling : With a new Table of the Particulars in this Book. THE FOURTH EDITION, much corrected and enlarged." A vignette on the title & ten small engravings of fish in the text; two pages of musical scores "The Anglers Song." (one printed upside down). Old annotations on title page and pp. 65 & 167; small accidents; restored headbands and spines; some foxing and minor marginal dampening; spotting. EXAMPLE OF THE FOURTH EDITION IN EARLIER BINDINGS. Westwood & Satchell, The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, (1888), 278.