[Rarebooks] FS: Walton, Compleat Angler, one of 350

[Bob Petrilla]

Walton, Izaak.  THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION:
Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of Most
Anglers. Bedford Park, Chiswick: Caradoc Press, 1905.  pp: (ix), 155,
colophon; frontispiece portrait, etched half-title, text illustrations and
music; rubricated title-page, running heads and marginal captions,
rubricated colophon.  Bound in brown morocco, joints cracked and barely
holding; lower panel of spine gone, gilt lettering intact; text block clean
and sound. 8.75" x 5.75".  *Needs repair.  *
This is #194 of 350 copies on paper, from the first edition of 1653.
Frontispiece etching of Izaak Walton by H. George Webb, signed in pencil by
the artist.  $250.00



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