WALTON (Izaac). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man - Lot 2

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 flyleaf and pp. 65 & 167; small accidents; head and spine restored; some freckling and small marginal wetnesses; spotting. COPY OF THE FOURTH EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Westwood & Satchell, The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, (1888), 278.