The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson with Love and Truth & Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes;Illustrated by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist by Walton, Izaak - 1929

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+.

London, the Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo, x+632pp, original full leather, marbled endpapers, very good.. Number 6 of edition limited to 1100 copies.

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)

London: Nonesuch, 1929. Bound in full brown leather, stamped in gold w/ raised bands and decorated endsheets. A beautiful copy of this limited edition (#844/1600). 631 pp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Leatherbound, Limited.

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. First Thus. Leather. Very Good. First edition thus published in a slender edition of eleven hundred copies for sale in England of which this is number 733. Tissue guard present. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bookplate to inside front board; otherwise a bright clean copy in full leather. Spine darkened with age. Comes in accompanying slipcase.

The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited Edition, 194 of 1100. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. x, 632 pp. Small 8vo. Full tan natural morocco leather over boards, raised bands, black ruled panels with gilt head and tail rules, gilt spine title and 'I.W.' monogram to front cover within floral medallion. Deckled fore and tail, gilt head, marbled endpapers, C. Sigrist engraved Walton frontispiece with 5 additional Sigrist portraits, one for each 'Life'; Compleat Angler illustrated with colored drawings by T. L. Poulton. Spine toned, very light rubbing to tips, small stain to fore tail corner of front cover. Very sound and tight otherwise with FINE interior contents.

London: for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts. 1815., 1815. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First printing of Bagster's Second Edition (8th since originally published) with an expanded index. Two parts in one. 514 pp. + extensive index, 50 plates indexed (some full-page on heavy stock), 8vo, original full leather binding with gilt edge-decorations to boards, raised bands, gilt spine titles and decorations. Contents complete with moderate foxing as usual, frontis port torn but neatly repaired. Rear hinge is intact but front hinge badly split and poorly repaired. Could benefit from binding repair. A Fair copy overall.

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Near fine. Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. 8vo, 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (210 x130 mm); pp. [6] x, 631 [5]. 6 copperplate engravings by Charles Sigrist (portraits of Walton, Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson) with tissue guards, but some offsetting to adjoining pages; 10 drawings of fish from in-line blocks, water-colored with stencils. Monotype Poliphilius on Pannekoek mould-made paper. All edges untrimmed, t.e.g. on the rough; bound in full natural morocco, headband and tailband, turn-ins with gilt fillets, marbled endpapers; "I.W." within gilt frame on front cover and gilt title on spine, raised bands; spine slightly wrinkled, but binding is firm and book is internally bright and clean. Housed in a marbled paper slipcase matching the endpapers, somewhat discolored and corners worn. Number 1577 of 1600 copies, in ink on the limitation page. [Dreyfus 61]. The first edition of Izaak Walton's (1593 - 1683) complete writings, this… Read More

UK: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Book. Illus. by Thomas Poulton & Charles Sigrist. VG+. Hardcover. Limited. Full leather with minor wear to the spine thus very good plus. Slipcase has modest wear rates very good. Limited edition # 672 of 1100 with 500 copies for sale in the US. Interestingly, despite the relatively large number of volumes printed, this is a hard book to fine. .

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist.. 8vo. (6),x,631,(5) pp. plus 6 inserts. Full morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Gilt "I.W." within oval frame on the upper board. Inner dentelles wit simple gilt lines, Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt in the rough, Six copperplate engravings and ten line block drawings. One of 1600 numbered copies, This is no. 667. This is a near fine copy, with only traces of wear. While most copies of this title exhibit a sunned and/or darkened spine, this copy is neither sunned nor darkened. Bookplate of Carlos Nestler on the front pastedown. In publisher's marbled paper slipcase which exhibits wear at the corner and edges. Nonesuch Bibliography,. 61.