WALTON (Izaac) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler, - Lot 16

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 F. and C. Rivington, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey, 1792. -- The Complete Angler. Being Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream. London, 1791. 2 parts in one small in-8° volume (113 x 182 mm), calf, double cold fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine (pastiche binding mid 20th c.). "With the Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John HAWKINS, Knt. The Fifth Edition, with Additions." Eleven plates including a frontispiece, a portrait, a musical score and eight figures engraved by RYLAND after WALE. Some foxing; marginal spotting on the last 4 leaves. FIFTH EDITION BY JOHN HAWKINS. "This is the 1791 edition, with a new title-page, the title of the second part, dated 1791, being retained" (Westwood & Satchell, 295).