[Rarebooks] FS: Walton's Complete Angler. 1st ed. edited by Sir John Hawkins. 1760

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. THE COMPLETE ANGLER: or Contemplative Man’s 
Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. In Two 
Parts... [Part II, Being How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling...]. To Which 
Are Now Prefixed, the Lives of the Authors. Illustrated with Cuts of the 
Several Kinds of River-Fish, and of the Implements Used in Angling, Views of the 
Principal Scenes Described in the Book... London: Printed Only for Thomas Hope... 
1760. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title page. 
lvi,xxii,304;xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,(8)pp. Index. Illustrated with 2 copper engraved frontispieces (1 a 
portrait of Cotton), 14 plates and 17 text engravings. 20th c. half polished 
brown calf, red morocco spine label, over marbled boards. A fine copy.     
$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A reprint of the 1676 edition, it is the first edition edited by Sir John 
Hawkins (1719-1789).

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