The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation ... In Two Parts ... With The Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.

by Sir John Hawkins by Izaac Walton

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Fourth Hawkins edition. Engraved frontispiece, portrait of Cotton facing title to part II, 14 engraved plates including music , and numerous engraved vignettes of fish in the text. Pp. lxxxii, 268; xxxiv, 111, 10, index . 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century sprinkled calf, richly gilt spine with raised bands, green leather labels lettered in gilt, and gilt-stamped angling devices in two compartments, marbled endpapers. Coigney 13; Horne 13; Oliver 13.

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