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The Complete Angler. Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of River Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing... and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton. With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas
by WALTON, Izaak & Charles COTTON
- Used
- Condition
- Minor foxing but a very good copy.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Nattali and Bond, 1860. Minor foxing but a very good copy.. Two volumes, large and heavy octavo, 14 fine engraved plates, with many additional textual engravings; in a beautiful contemporary binding of half brown morocco over marbled boards, top edges gilt, cloth slipcase.
This very handsome edition of the angling classic is the second Nicolas edition, reprinted from Harris Nicolas's Pickering edition of 1836, which is considered one of the most beautiful and thorough fishing books ever published.
This version is richly illustrated with a total of 61 plates and vignettes, after Stothard, Inskipp, and Hassell. The text is taken from the fifth edition of the Compleat Angler of 1676, which was the last revised by Walton, but it also footnotes the text of all four earlier editions. Also included are thorough memoirs and notes of both Walton and Cotton.
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- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3002974
- Title
- The Complete Angler. Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of River Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing... and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton. With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas
- Author
- WALTON, Izaak & Charles COTTON
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor foxing but a very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Nattali and Bond
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Hordern House Rare Books
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Surry Hills, New South Wales
About Hordern House Rare Books
Hordern House, founded by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell in 1985 and named for our original building in Sydney's Potts Point, is an internationally renowned dealership, specialising in rare books, manuscripts and paintings.Nowadays we conduct our business in the heart of Surry Hills, five minutes from the centre of Sydney. We occupy an entire floor of a converted warehouse where we have created a customised environment for our work and the display of rare books, manuscripts & paintings.Always reflected in our extensive stock of rare and select material is our specialization in voyages and travels (with a special interest in the Pacific & Australia), natural history and colour-plate material, paintings and voyage art, historical maps and manuscripts.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Marbled boards
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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