WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler; - Lot 26

WALTON (Izaak) & COTTON (Charles). The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, Allan Bell & Co. And Simpkin & Marshall, 1834. 2 parts in one volume, in-12 (103 x 162 mm), glazed blue calf, double gilt fillet and fine cold-stamped roulette framing the boards, ornate smooth spine, combed edges (English binding of the period). "With Lives and Notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knight. Edited by James RENNIE, A.M. [...] A new edition". A frontispiece portrait, a plate of musical scores and numerous vignettes in the text. EXEMPLAIRE ENRICHED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING ("The Lesson", p. 178), SEVERAL WHITE INTERCALLS, ONE WITH A MANUSCRIPTED POEM, AN ILLUSTRATED VIGNETTE ON THE TITLE AND TWO SMALL PRINTED PIECES (pp. 134 & 135). From the library of the sculptor Horatio Westmacott, with handwritten bookplate on title page. Marginal foxing to portrait. EDITION GIVEN BY RENNIE. Westwood & Satchell, 308.