[Rarebooks] FS: Izaak Walton's "Lives..." A finely bound copy of the best edition.
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Walton, Izaak. THE LIVES OF DR. JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY WOTTON, MR. RICHARD
HOOKER, MR. GEORGE HERBERT, AND DR. ROBERT SANDERSON; To Which Are Added, the
Autographs of Those Eminent Men, Now First Collected; an Index, and Illustrative
Notes. London: John Major. 1825. xviii,504pp. Index. Plus each “life” with a
separate title page. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontis., 10
copper-engraved plates (all are mounted India proofs), and 52 text woodcuts. Finely
bound in elaborately gilt tooled, paneled, crushed green morocco. A.e.g. Double
endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown. $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
A beautiful copy of the best edition of this work.
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