THE COMPLETE ANGLER

by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton

$4,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, sold by Thomas Tegg, 1824. First Tegg Edition. First two-volume edition of Walton's celebration of the art and spirit of fishing. Here, Tegg reprints the text of the 1797 edition, edited by Sir John Hawkins, and issued as volumes 49 and 50 of Whittingham's Cabinet Library priced 8 shillings . A handsome set, uncommon in the original binding. Coigney 27. Item #6716

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