The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation

by Fine Binding - Cosway style, Isaac Walton, Charles

$8,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. First Bagster edition. Octavo 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm. . iv , vi, vii-512, pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and nineteen engraved plates and two sheets of music. Ten of the plates are engraved by Audinet, eight after Wale, two after Samuel; two music plate; two plates of fishing tackle and flies. There are seventeen fine engravings of fish and two large woodcuts

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