The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation ... with Original Memoirs and Notes

by Sir Harris Nicolas by Izaac Walton

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First Nicolas Edition, Large Paper. Engraved title page, 48 engraved plates from designs by Thomas Stothard and J. Inskipp, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. Pp. 16 , ccxii, 2 , 129; 2 , 131 -436, 32 . 2 vols. Large 8vo. Full contemporary green morocco gilt, spines stamped with angling motifs in gilt, boards with a piscatorial vignette surrounded by fish and floral devices, a.e.g. Original

• Binding: Leather

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