The Compleat Walton: The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wooten Hooker Herbert & Sanderson by Walton, Izaak - 1929

Nonesuch Press 1929. Limited numbered edition in full leather (as issued) in the scarce slipcase, octavo, leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges gilted, marbled eps, frontispiece, x + 631pp, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in marbled slipcase VG (light rubbing, light tanning, light soiling)

The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Limited edition, copy number 823 of 1,100 UK copies and 500 US copies. Contains The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson, Love & Truth and miscellaneous writings. Full leather bound with nice deckled edges. Pretty marbled slipcase. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. Boards have some fading and stains.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Pp. x+632, engraved frontispiece portrait and 5 plates (one lacking the tissue guard), l0 coloured text illustrations of fish, 2 seals of John Donne re-drawn by Poulton and printed in red, marbled endpapers, bibliographical notes, indices; full tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, author's initials within decorative oval frame in gilt at centre of upper board, a couple of tiny dents to lower board; top edges rough gilt, others uncut; bookplate of Edward Wheewall Holden on upper pastedown, the plates faintly offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1929. Edition limited to l,600 numbered copies. McKitterick 61.*Lacking the slipcase. Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947) took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to form Australia's first automobile manufacturer. Holden n was influential in the company's expansion… Read More