WALTON (Izaac) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler: - Lot 12

WALTON (Izaac) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, Printed for John and Francis Rivington, 1775. 2 parts in one volume in-8° (110 x 177 mm), basane, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Two parts in one volume with separate paginations: - LXXVIII + 303 + [I] pp. & -- LVIII + 128 + [VIII] pp. "To which are prefixed, the Lives of the Authors. And Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John HAWKINS, Knt. The third 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 including one of a musical score and seventeen vignettes in the text. From the William I. Coppard library, with handwritten bookplate on verso of frontispiece and on title. Spine rebound. THIRD EDITION BY JOHN HAWKINS. Westwood & Satchell, 291.