The Compleat Angler Or the Contemplative Mans Recreation
by Walton, Izaac & Charles Cotton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good+ copy
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited. Very good+ copy. 1927. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 367 pp., Limited to 100 numbered copies with an additional plate signed by the artist, Edition De Luxe bound in 1/4 vellum with brown & black batik patterned paper over boards; handmade paper with deckle edges. Sixteen tipped-in plates on India paper with lettered tissue guards plus the signed plate at the front of the book. Edges of boards worn, vellum somewhat darkened with a short split starting at the top edge of the front hinge. Text and plates clean and bright. Edited by John Major with text from his 1889 edition. .
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS023626I
- Title
- The Compleat Angler Or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation
- Author
- Walton, Izaac & Charles Cotton
- Illustrator
- Illus. by E. Fitch Daglish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+ copy
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Thornton Butterworth Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting & Fishing;
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Abacus Bookshop
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...