The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

by Izaac Walton

$75,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title, ten engraved vignettes of fish in text, two engraved pages of music. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Nineteenth-century dark green morocco, gilt, gilt spine with raised bands and citron morocco labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by BEDFORD. Final leaf neatly repaired at outer margin, with one letter in neat pen facsimile; contemporary manuscript correction to p. 245, line 17 changing “contention” to

• Binding: Leather

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