The Complete Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation - 2 Volume Set
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
#474 of a Limited Edition of 500 sets. With an Introduction by James Russell Lowell.
Walton’s celebration of the art and spirit of fishing first published in 1653 and enhanced by fellow angler Charles Cotton in a 5th edition in 1676.
Item #9016255-1/8 x 8-1/4", gilt titled and decorated blue-green cloth, deckled edges, lxxvi, vi, 465pp, Linnaean arrangement of the fish, notes, commendatory verses, general index, engraved portraits of both Walton & Cotton, 74 engravings on wood, numerous additional vignettes and etchings.
Clean of owner's marks, slight lean to spines, some cracking at signature joints, overall a bright and pleasing set, very good indeed.
Price: $375.00