WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler: - Lot 9

WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, Printed for J. Rivington, 1766. 2 parts in one volume in-8° (115 x 174 mm), calf, double gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine (English binding of the period). Two parts in one volume with separate paginations: - LVI + XXII + 303 + [I] pp. & -- XLVIII + IV + II + IV + 128 + [VIII] pp. "To which is now prefixed, the Lives of the Authors. And Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John HAWKINS, of Twickenham, Esq. The second Edition." 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. The plate "The Angler's Song" is doubled. Restored spine; first quire unbound; ink line along or on the text of the "Dedication", the "Advertisement" and on 24 pages; a few handwritten annotations; one handwritten page rebound at the end of the volume; freckles on the "Index" leaves. SECOND EDITION GIVEN Westwood & Satchell, 288.