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The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton Embellished with many Engravings from Paintings and Drawings, Walton, Isaac and Charles Cotton. Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1903. New Edition. The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. A facsimile of the second edition published by John Major in 1824. 16mo up to 6½" tall. 416 pp. with a small spine label bound-in between final text page and free endpaper. Red cloth boards with paper title block to spine. Boards have general wear with a tiny worm hole midway along outside spine joint affecting inner hinge with a tiny loss of paper. Contents are in generally fine condition with browning to free endpapers front and back with some transfer to pastedowns. The Complete (Compleat) Angler was first published in 1653 and remains enduringly popular with 1,097 editions published between 1653 and 2019 in 9 languages.

James Smith, 1822. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1822. 388 pages. Half bound leather with marbled paper covered boards. Front board is detached but still present. Book divided in two parts. First part written by Isaac Walton. Second part written by Charles Cotton. Advertisements to front. Presumed Ninth edition. Book has been rebound. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Severe cracking to rear hinge causing board to be loose. First few pages up to page VI are loose. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Paper remnants with glue markings to front endpaper and hinge. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Plates are moderately tanned and foxed. Occasional water staining. Faint black marks throughout. Text remains legible. Occasional chipping to edges. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Leather peeling heavily to all surfaces, with loss to corners and spine ends. Large split to rear joint. Visible scuffing and markings to boards. Glue marks to front.

(London: Printed for William Cole: n.d.) [It is believed that William Cole operated approx 1820 to 1830] An owner's name and date 1832 at head of title-page. Cl. lettered in gilt on spine (apparently a later binding) pp. xx, 314 (170 x 105 x about 26 mm thick). Embellished with Portraits of the Authors and Engravings of the River-fish described in the Work. An owner's name label on fixed front endpaper. Some light marking or stains to covers; internally near fine; overall very good copy

London William Cole C, 1828-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Missing spine cover brown boards privaleyly printed for william cole emblessed with portraits

Chatto & Windus. Good+. 1875. Hard Cover. Some scuffing and edge wear on spine and boards, small stain on rear board near spine. Front inner hinge is starting to crack but binding is tight. An attractive book. .

William Cole Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. No date but circa 1830. In red half-leather and marbled boards. Wear to corners and fading to leather on spine. 314 pages. Hinges are sound.

HBDJ, VG+/VG, WITH SCUFF RUB TINY CHIPS TO DJ EXTREMITIES ,1962. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT , SMALL LAVENDER RED with Copper gilt on Spine CvrHardcover, LARGER FORMAT. 215, 8 Pp ADS.. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Notable sunning to spine and sunning to interior. TINY EDGe CREASES & back of DJ says few 500 AUTHORS ,INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET BOTTRALL, NOT ILLUSTRATED, GOLD & WHITE EL ENDPAPERS , PINK B/W Illustrated Dustjacket BY BIRO of 2 Fishing FROM WATERS BANK & BASKET OF LARGE FISH, COMMENTS ON Ancient & Modern Practice of Fishing. TREASTISE ON ANGLING. ENSURES HIS LITERARY IMMORTALITY. IT INSTRUCTS AMUSES MEDIFIES, work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting… Read More

New York: John Wiley, 1848. Reprint of 1848. Very good in rebacked 1/2 red leather and it's original, blind embossed, red cloth covered boards with five gilt rules on the spine with no text to identify the title. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with a Brooklyn (New York?) address written on the front paste down and an early prior owner's name and date (1849) written in pencil on both the first and second free end pages and a penciled quotation written at the top of the fly title page. There are a few inconsequential marginal dampness stains with the body of the text block. Pasted to the bottom of page 53 is a short newspaper notice of a 3 pound 7 oz. Long Island trout having been caught with a penciled date of March 20, 1851. Page 60 is missing the print for approximately 20% of the page a problem caused during the printing process which was not caught before binding. The contents are largely free of foxing and tanning. Part I is contained within pages 1 to 249 and is preceded by a… Read More

1808. Printed For Samuel Bagster. London. 1808. The Seventh Edition, With Improvements and Additions, both of Matter and Plates. 512 pages. Portrait frontis., extra vignette title page, 16 engraved plates. Bound in early 19th century half brown calf, professionally rebacked. Corners of rear board very worn. Marbled boards. Early 19th century ownership inscriptions. Occasional foxing and browning to pages otherwise a clean and sound copy.

London: Printed for Samuel Bagster (Printed by Mercier & Co.), 1808. First Bagster edition. 8vo. (4), vi, [7]-61, [lxii]-lxvi, 67-344, [347]-499, [500-501], 502-512, (2, Bagster ad leaf) pp. 32 engravings, including 17 copper engravings of fish, portraits, plates. Coigney 17. Somewhat later green cloth-backed drab boards (spine ends a little worn, corners and edges bumped), gilt spine title. Very good copy.

1808. Samuel Bagster. London. 1808. The Seventh Edition. Large 8vo. 512 pages + [2] pages adverts. Frontis., bound after title, engraved title, 15 engraved plates [16 in total] plus engravings in text. Bound in full panelled brown calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Hinges strengthened with binders tape at endpapers. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ownership inscription dated 1817. Boards slightly marked with wear to corners, pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy of an early 19th century edition.

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington 1797. 12mo. Seventh Hawkins edition (titled sixth). [iii] - viii, lxxvi, 263, xxxii, 111, (10) pp. No half title. Later respine in brown calf with gilt ruled lines and maroon leather title label. Original sheep boards retained. Wear to corners. Endpapers darkened. Internally generally clean. Title-page to each part. Two engraved music plates. Three engraved tackle plates. With two previous owner's names on the title page in ink. 'Louisa Morgarth Harris' and 'Robert Watson of the Inner Temple 1859'. . Very Good. Full Sheep. 1797.

London: Nattali and Bond, 1860. Two volumes. 4to.; (14), ccxii, (4), 129; [131]-436, (3) pp. Illustrated, plates. With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Original gilt-stamped green cloth (3 inch split in cloth along rear joint of volume one, with short tear into spine). Still a solid, very good copy. Second Nicolas edition. With Peter Oliver's ownership signature on the front endpaper. Coigney 78.

London: John and Francis Rivington, 1775. Book. Good. Half-Leather. 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Third edition. Marbled paper-covered boards with half-leather binding. Five raised bands to spine. Title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light rubbing to spine and boards. Gilt on title is dulled. Very light browning to text throughout. Previous owners armorial bookplate (Frederic Markham Tindall) on front pastedown. 14 full page engraved plates. 303pp. (First Part 128pp. (Second Part).

John and Francis Rivington, and T. Caslon, London., 1775. Third edition thus: with Lives of the Authors and Notes by Sir John Hawkins. Octavo. pp lxxx, 303, [1], lviii, 128, [viii] index. Two frontispieces and fourteen plates, as well as engravings in the text. The 18th century binding of full calf has been recently rebacked to style, new front free endpaper.On the front pastedown is a pictorial bookplate in the manner of William Nicholson. A bit of foxing here and there. Covers rubbed at the corners. Very good.

London: Printed For F and C Rivington,G.G.J and J Robinson,W Goldsmith,J and J Taylor,R Faulder,Scatcherd and Whitaker,and Jefferey. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in full brown tree calf leather binding with red moroccan title label to the second of six compartments to spine with the others embossed with gilt designs,upper and lower boards with gilt lined edges with marbled front pastedown only.Some wear evident along the rear cover at spine edge.Blank fly leaf with frontispiece of Charles Cotton and title page that has one small ink name to the top edge.Illustrated with some ten engraved plates and with a further twenty-one textual engraved illustrations.Two books in one.There is one ink written note to the page margin number 21 of the second part.The Compleat Angler was first published by the bookseller Richard Marriot, whose business was based in Fleet Street near where Walton had a shop.There were quite a number of editions during the author's lifetime 2nd ed in 1655 then a third in… Read More

London: F. and C. Rivington and others, 1797. Sixth Edition with Additions. Very good+ in full medium brown diced calf with a professional reback of the spine upon which has been placed a gilt on red leather spine label and gilt tooling. The front and rear boards have contemporary diced leather within a gilt double border. The end sheets are contemporary marbled paper. A small octavo measuring 7 5/8 by 4 5/8 inches lacking the 1/2 title page as is typical with this title. The tips of both boards have been bumped with the leather worn through to the underlying material. Part I of the book contains The Life of Mr. Isaac Walton in lxxvi (76) pages followed by Walton's The Complete Angler containing 262 pages, a page of explanation and three plates of illustrations as well as two music plates facing pages 204 and 262. Part II of the book contains Some Account of the Life and Writings of Charles Cotton, Esq. xxxii (32) pages; followed by Part II of The Complete Angler of 111 pages after which is… Read More

London. Leather bound. Very good +. [NATURAL WORLD] [SPORT: FISHING]. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey, 1792. Fifth Hawkins edition, with additions. 12mo; First part: lxxxii, 267, [1]pp + [3]plates; Second part: xxiv, 111pp +[10]pp index; polished marbled calf, gilt-stamped borders and ornaments, 5 band spine with gilt ruling and decorative ornaments, lettering gilt; gilt-stamped board edges; gilt ruling and stamped fish on inside board edges, marbled endpapers; Bound by Riviere & Son [1829-1939] stamped on bottom front inside board margin; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece with tissue guard; copperplate engravings in text and 11 plates, incl, 2 fps; front hinge cracked but holding, a few foxed spots; very good plus. This is a beautifully bound copy of the two parts of The Complete Angler, the 1653 classic on nature and the art of fishing. This fifth edition includes the Advertisements… Read More

London: Nattali and Bond. Two Volume Set in Brown Calf Over maroon coloured ribbed cloth boards with five raised bands to spine and with black moroccan title labels to the 2nd compartment to each spine,gilt ruled borders to each spine section.Both copies with exquisite red marbled endpapers.Graded Very Good.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.Bindings remain firm with NO hinge weakness.This is the second Edition with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nichols.Illustrated with wood and steel engravings.There is some browning/spotting to the endpapers and pre-lims.Top edge of the books are gilted,other edges slightly foxed and spotted as you would expect.A handsome set for the collector.Heavy set weighing over 2.2 kg Volume One (ccxii)129pp Volume Two 234pp + Index Second Editions [1860] . Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1860.

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847, 1847. First American editon. Duodecimo. Fair to good. Possibly lacking a frontispiece portrait of Cotton in part two. Text block is loose. Some wear, soil/ and scuffing. Former owner's name in pencil.. Illustrated.. Green gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with gilt fish on spine. Hardcover. With a biographical preface by the American editor. With an appendix catalogue of fishing books.