The compleat (complete) angler; [with] The art of angling by Walton, Izaak & Cotton, Charles (edited by John Buchan) - 1960

London: Macmillan & Co., 1901. Hardcover. Fair. With a bibliographical note. Page edges rough cut. Some light water damage to cover, rubbing to edges and toning to covers. Spotting to front matter. Contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Fair+.

HBDJ, 1939. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT WITH PASTED STICKER ON PG SHOWING WALTONS FACE & SMALL BIO. ,Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine. BACK OF DJ MENTIONS FEW 500 AUTHORS , Xliv, 215, 8 Pp ADS. Orange EMBOSSEDCloth, Gilt on Spine cvr.. Excellent Edition With A Long Introduction By Lang. In Unusually Well Preserved Condition: Book Is Fine-, Former Owner's Information On Front Endpaper But No Wear Or Damage; A Blurb On Walton, With His Photo And Short Bio, Is Neatly Pasted Beneath The Copyright Information And Looks To Be On Paper Similar To The Dj . Dj Is Near Fine, Just A Trace Of Rubbing Right On A Few Points At Top And Bottom Edges, Very Slightbronwing/Fading To Spine.

Thomas Tegg,, 1826. 2 vols. in 1., 16mo., Second Tegg Edition, with an engraved frontispiece [of 2], 2 engraved title-vignettes, and 30 woodcut illustrations (the majority of fish) in the text, endpapers lightly age-stained; strongly bound in nineteenth-century full speckled calf, sides with gilt frame border, very neatly rebacked in calf to style, back with four raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt, a very good, bright, crisp copy. WITH THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN [NOT THE PLAYWRIGHT] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Includes the lives of the authors. A reprint of the 1797 Hawkins edition with neat woodcuts designed by W. Harvey and engraved by Williams and Thompson. Tragically, this copy wants the engraved frontispiece to Part I. Coigney 22; Horne 33, Westwood & Satchell p.226.

John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn,, 1823. 8vo., First Major Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 13 fine copper-engraved plates (including 2 of music scores) and 77 woodcut illustrations and decorations in the text, some light offsetting from frontispiece to title, some very light and inoffensive spotting to some margins, neat later nineteenth century inscription on blank preliminary; most attractively bound in mid-nineteenth full speckled brown calf, boards with decorative gilt frame border, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, short splits in joints at head and tail (but binding wholly sound), an attractive copy of a perennial classic in period binding. The first Major edition is based on the fifth edition of 1676, the last… Read More

London Printed by T. Maxey , for Rich Marriot PUBL, Printed on Laid Paper, 1653 HARDBACK, NODustJacket ISSUED, 1st UK edition was 1653, This POSSIBLE 1st early edition , Known as the Griggs facsimile edition, published in 1882 by William Griggs, London. Griggs was photo-lithographer to the Queen. It is a photographic reproduction of a first edition, but many pages required additional touch-up work to make it presentable. , GOOD-/GOOD, AS-IS, NO JACKET, 1653 ON TITLE PAGE, Light rub, wear Fade Plain brown Calf LEATHER BINDING, pg. 114 reading VVhen not VVien) , 246 pgs. NOJACKET, Small cover creases, 3 3/4 X 6 in. Tiny tears spine cvr Edges, Fade Gold Gilt Spine cvr & wear to spine ends, PAGE 217 Anglers Song Bassus Printed upside down, 246 pgs, 13 chapters,a printing or binding error which has led to few sections of pgs need be reglued back into book they are separated OR not being bound in ORIGINALLY ?, The title is engraved within ornaments, while the subtitle and imprint are printed using… Read More