The Complete [Compleat] Angler by Walton, Izaak [Isaak]; Davies, Christopher [illus.] - 1899

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+.

Routledge Warnes & Routledge,, 1859. 8vo., Third Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, 3 plates and illustrations in the text; pale green cloth, boards and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a bright, clean, crisp copy. Includes Fitzgibbon's 'Advertisment' and the sketch of Walton's life. Coigney 75; Oliver 72; Westwood & Satchell p.233.

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