Walton, Izaak
The Complete Angler
£882
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
… being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. And Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or a Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas and third Pickering edition, deluxe issue, 2 volumes, imperial 8vo (26.8 x 18cm), later red crushed morocco gilt by Ramage, incorporating various angling motifs gilt to spines and covers, top edges gilt, half-titles, title-pages in red and black, all engraved plates and vignettes as called for, all except (for a few vignette headpieces), with duplicates on india paper, mounted, many of which being proofs before letters, a few plates spotted or offset, volume 1 with scuffs to rear board and offsetting to title-page [Westwood, The Chronicle of the “Compleat Angler”, 1883 edition, pp. 58-62; Westwood & Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria pp. 228-9]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
The work was published at six guineas for standard copies and ten for those with india proofs of the plates.